Now With 70% More RSS!

February 14th, 2008 | by Peter |

When I looked at my stats, I saw that very few people appeared to be coming from RSS.  I know that RSS readers are hard to track down (that’s why Feedburner sold for $100 million), so I just used Google Reader as a proxy.  There were about 6 people per day coming from there, and I wondered why it was so low, considering that thousands of people have seen my blog through various social news hits.  Then I looked at my page and saw there was only the lame RSS link in the WordPress footer.

I looked for a different theme that included RSS in the sidebars.  I did this for a (n embarassingly long) while until I realized that WordPress is just PHP, and as a typical elitist hacker, I could make a minor change to PHP code (even if I had to wash my hands afterwards :).  So, now it’s done, and the RSS links and icons are now in the sidebar.

So, what are you waiting for?  Subscribe!!

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