Feedburner is an extremely useful feature, which can burn the RSS feeds of your blog or website. Feedburner is the most popular one because it comes for free.

• The first and foremost thing you need to head along with Feedburner is a Google account. Login to http://feedburner.com  with your Google account’s credentials.
• The first page you will come across will be like this,

• Enter the URL of a blog or website out of which you want your feeds to come in the Textbox shown above with a title Burn a feed right this instant and click on the Next button.
• In the next step, you will select the title and address of your feed. As you click on the Next button your feed will be created.

• In the next step you will be given a URL to subscribe to your feed and also share it with others, It is advised to keep a note of this URL for future references. As the Feed is already created you can skip other options for now and go to Feed management.

• The feed management page will look like shown below, click on the tabs to change the settings as per your wish.

• One of the most important feature that Feedburner provides is the Email subscriptions of feeds. To activate Email subscription go to Publicize>>Email Subscriptions and click on the Activate button and you will be able to receive your updates through Emails.

• Till now we have discussed how to create feeds using Feedburner now we will head across discussing how to use it in WordPress. In WordPress we use RSS feeds as a widget so first of all drag the RSS widget from the widgets section on to the sidebar where we keep all our active widgets.

• As shown in the above screenshot we will be asked to enter following information:
  • The RSS feed URL
  • Feed title of your choice
  • Select the number of items you want to display in the RSS widget
  • Check the item details like its content, author and date as per your wish
• Just click on the save button and we are done with it, now you will be able to see your feeds in the RSS widget.

What’s my feedburner ID?

1. Go to the feedburner homepage and click “sign in”.
2. Click on the feed you want to find the ID for.
3. Once you’ve clicked the feed you’re interested in, take a look at your address bar. It should have a URL in it like this one: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=1148202
4. Notice the string of numbers after “id=” ? That is your feedburner ID for that particular feed. In above case, the ID is “1148202”