Feedburner – The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled

Blog — By Matthew Tommasi on May 8, 2009 at 11:51 pm

feedburnerlogo

I wanted to write a post on a Feedburner issue that was driving me crazy.. and from what I can see a lot of you out there as well.

It is to do with when you go to subscribe via email to your feeds the following error appears,

feedburner error

First of all you need to signup to Feedburner and burn your feed.

Once you have done that click on the Publicize tab,

publicize

Then click on Email Subscriptions,

email subscriptions

Copy the generated code and paste it into a text editor,

copy code

Now in my case, my WordPress theme has an RSS email subscription component in the footer (yours may be different),

email rss

Now go to Appearance > Editor in WordPress,

editor

As my RSS email subscription component is in the footer, I need to edit footer.php (yours may be different),

footer.php

Next, I found the following piece of code in my footer.php file,

onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=<?php echo get_option(‘feedmail’); ?>’, ‘popupwindow’, ’scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”>

I then went to my Feedburner code and copied the following,

onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=thesocialmediaguide’, ‘popupwindow’, ’scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”>

I then copied this Feedburner code and pasted it over the code in the footer.php file.

So that it the first bit of copying and pasting out of the way.. one more to go..

I then found the following piece of code in my footer.php file,

<input type=”hidden” value=”<?php echo get_option(‘feedmail’); ?>” name=”uri”/><input type=”hidden” name=”loc” value=”en_US”/>

I then went to my Feedburner code and copied the following,

<input type=”hidden” value=”thesocialmediaguide” name=”uri”/><input type=”hidden” name=”loc” value=”en_US”/>

I then copied this Feedburner code and pasted it over the code in the footer.php file.

Click on <Update file> to save the changes.

Go back to your site to test everything works.

Enter your email address to subscribe,

emailAddress

Enter your email address,

request

The following should display,

check email

After click on the confirmation link in your email address, then following will appear,

confirmed

Done!

Everything is working as it should.

Tags: email, enabled, error, feed, feedburner, have, not, subscriptions

GD

I have successfully set up the email subscription since I can see that I have email subscribers. However, I have entered new posts and they are not receiving an email regarding new updates. I myself subscribed via email to test it out and have not received anything regarding updates. Any ideas?

LEE

Thanks a lot !This has been very helpful

M@tt

Glad to hear it worked out for you.

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Rafa XL

Thanks a lot men! This has been very helpful!

Greetings from Uruguay!

M@tt

Glad to be of help Rafa!

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d kubiak

Absolutely brilliant! Why are the "amateurs" always so much more helpful than the "pros"? Blessings upon thee, brother - truly appreciate the aid.

david k-

M@tt

Thanks for the comment mate and glad this post helped you.

Cheers
Matt

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ukbluejaygaz

Fantastic & thanks very much for this post!!! I was quite literally going crazy trying to figure this problem out until I came across your extremely well written and simple to follow instructions.

Thanks again!!

M@tt

Glad it worked out for you! Thanks for the comment.

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Web Design Survivalist

Thanks a lot for this post!

M@tt

No worries mate.

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cholan

hi Matthew Tommasi Thanks for the post. Now I have used it effectively on my launchpad theme!

M@tt

Nice work mate!

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bhavyakamboj

Thanks for the post. Now I have used it effectively on my launchpad theme!

M@tt

Nice work!

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Lee | Money4Invest.com

Thank you for the nice tutorial. I followed the instruction and it works like a charm. So happy that my feedburner is active now.

M@tt

Nice work Lee! Glad this post helped you out.

Cheers
Matt

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M@tt

Nice work Lee! Glad this post helped you out.

Cheers
Matt

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motherofconfusion

Wish I read this before taking two hours to figure it out today -- glad someone posted it tho!

M@tt

I wish you had have found this post earlier as well.. thanks for the
comment.

Matt

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raju1

Thanks........Thanks..................Thanks

M@tt

Glad it worked out for you!

Mimi

Hi-
I have a similar problem but slightly different:

I set up a Google Reader Account, along with a Feedburner account. Both seem to be working fine separately and together. My feeds are updated on both sites, and my email subscription page on my (self made) blog seems to be working fine. I subscribed myself to make sure that I will receive updates as a test. I show up as the only subscriber at the moment. However, when I tested a new feed, I did not receive an email of the update. The new feeds show on both Google Reader and Feedburner, but no notification. I Checked the time of delivery in my emails and set to 9am-11am, still no email during those times... If anyone can help, I would much appreciate it.

Thanks.

M@tt

Hi Mimi

Thanks for the email. I tried subscribing to your email updates and was successfully presented with the pop-up confirming my email address.. then I also got a confirmation email, which says to me that side of your feedburner setup is all fine..

All I can suggest is to double-check that the time zone is correct (for wherever you are based).. if it is, maybe try deactivating the delivery options service.. logout of Feedburner.. then log back in and reactivate it.

Give that a try.

Matt

antonio

thanks man 4 your post... finally I got it!!!

I've noticed that there is often a mistake in template code at this line:
action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify"

in several templates I saw an "..../emailverify" instead of "..../mailverify"

ciao Anto

ferd berfle

feed burner now requires you have a GOOGLE account and allow Google to screen your content.

Is there anything out there that does not require google involvement?

M@tt

I think Feedblitz might be what you are looking for..

Pedro

Hi again

The problem is not the RSS Feed button. It works and was quite simple to set up. The difficulty is on the widget that allows the email subscription. They talk about the FEED ID with digits only. I have a Feed Id but made of digits and letters.

Pedro

Hi

I´m having loads of difficulty in enabling subscriptions by email. I read everywhere the feed id only contains digits, but the one I find has letters as well "5j4inao5lin8d20r18jur667u0".

Don't know what do do. Would appreciate your help.

Thanks

Matthew Tommasi

Hi Pedro

I think you may have set it up wrong.

If you hover your mouse over my RSS icon, its location is,
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thesocialmediaguide

If you hover your mouse over your RSS icon (on your site), its location is,
http://feeds.feedburner.com/http/feeds2feedburn...

.. I believe your Feedburner RSS URL should be,
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/maverickanismblogs...

You need to login to your Feedburner account, select your feed, then click on "Edit Feed Details".. and you should then see your 'Feed Address'..

Rod

Just wanted to tell you thanks for posting this. You may have solved this problem back in May, but it's still relevant now. I was sooooo frustrated by the situation you described above. Thanks again. Check out my site whenever you get the chance.

Rod "The Success Coach" Kirby
http://www.rodkirby.com

M@tt

Glad this guide helped you out Rodricus. Cool site by the way!

Matt

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Karen Shaffer

Thanks for the handy instructions. I was having this issue and now it's all fixed!

remco

in the yamidoo theme, you don't need to work with the code. Just enable email in feedburner, and enter your Feedburner in the Yamadoo configuration panel........very easy !!
I have to say though that I find the 2 steps of confirmation too much. First in a popup on the website, and then again veryifing from your email

M@tt

Initially I found that the Feedburner email subscriptions worked fine with the Yaimdoo theme.. until I double checked it sometime after and found that it was 'broken'.. hence this guide.

Umm Junayd

Thanks, that was fantastic! Worked perfectly.

Ayako

I just tried exactly what is was told and still not working :( It is a good thing that I found out about this from my reader since I had no idea this was not working.