Last week, I wrote a quick post about redirecting all my Wordpress feeds to Feedburner. I thought everything was working properly… but it turns out it wasn’t.

The redirects were being done by the .htaccess file and mod_rewrites. If anyone besides the Feedburner bot came to the feed’s URL, they would get redirected to the Feedburner feed.

It seemed to work fine. I double checked each of the feeds by following the links, and I was automatically redirected to the Feedburner feed. What could be wrong?

I just checked one of the category specific feeds, and didn’t show any of the posts from the past week. Odd.

As it turns out, the Feedburner bot was also being redirected. But the bot was only being redirected for the category feeds. For some reason, the mod_rewrite was working fine for the sitewide feed – allowing the bot through, and redirecting other people to Feedburner – but it was malfunctioning on the category specific feeds.

To be honest, I have no idea why it didn’t work, so I just scrapped the idea and worked out something else. I kept the one redirect for the sitewide feed, and I hard-coded the Feedburner URLs into the template for the category specific feeds. Not the most elegant method, but it works.