As part of the site revision process, I’ve decided to do away with the category-specific feeds. These feeds, which cover Excel, Mac OS, Word, and WordPress content, are being utilized by less than 100 people. If you’re reading this message in your feed reader, YOU might be one of them.
Within a month or so, these feeds will simply not work. Delete them from your reader.
If you want to continue receiving content from this site via RSS, please subscribe to the main feed, using one of the following URLs:
Too bad – I was interested in the WordPress articles but I don’t want to clutter my feeds with Microsoft stuff. Those category feeds bring readers that would not subscribe to the whole feed.
I guess I should clarify…the category feeds DO still exist — they exist in ALL WordPress blogs. But I’m no longer running them through Feedburner. Once the dust settles here, I’ll make a point of writing a quick article about how you can link to them.
For now, the short version is this:
(1) Go to the category (topic) you want to subscribe to.
(2) Copy the URL out of the address bar of your browser. For WordPress articles here, that would be http://www.mariasguides.com/topic/internet/wordpress/
(3) Paste it into your feed reader software followed by “feed.” So that would be http://www.mariasguides.com/topic/internet/wordpress/feed
Why remove the category feed, even if only one reader uses them ? Is the cost excessive ? Is the load they generate even noticeable ?
Load wasn’t the issue at all. It was simply an effort to simplify the site and make it easier to manage. This thing has become like a hydra.