One other little goodie I forgot to mention. I still had a reason to want to disable the blog from automatically adding the feed discovery link, my reason is because I want that link on all the pages in my site not just the blog, from anywhere in the site I want users to easily be able to subscribe to the blog. So I wanted a way to be able to add the link myself in layout.master to accomplish this. I did add a new setting in the blog to turn off the automatic adding of the discovery link, then I created a new control that I could add to layout.master and it would handle adding that guid to the link for me. So in the new release you will be able to use this as well if you like, you can it to the head section in layout.master like this:

<portal:FeedDiscoveryLink id="fd1" runat="server" FeedUrl="http://www.mojoportal.com/blog19rss.aspx" FeedTitle="mojoPortal Change Blog" />

I just hard code my blog feedurl there and the control will append the query string with the guid when it renders. There is also a property on the control if one did not want to append the query string with the guid one could add this property on the control:

<portal:FeedDiscoveryLink id="fd1" runat="server" UseRedirectBypassToken="false" FeedUrl="http://www.mojoportal.com/blog19rss.aspx" FeedTitle="mojoPortal Change Blog" />

Best,

Joe

:-D Thank you for the coffee Ted! Much appreciated.

Hi,

If you read and understand this complete thread you will understand that it is working correctly. Even when using Feedburner we want people to subscribe to your original feed url not the feedburner url, so we render the original url. The original feed url will redirect to feedburner for web browser requests, but we detect the requests coming form feedburner's crawler and don't redirect them so it can consume the feed.

See also Using Feedburner with Your Blog there are settings to use to make sure that even if people are redirected to feedburner and they subscribe from there, they will subscribe to the origianl url. The whole idea is that you don't want to lose subscribers if you ever stop using feedburner so you want them to subscribe to the orginal feed url not the feedburner url.

Hope that helps,

Joe