Customize the Feedburner Chicklet

24 Responses to “Customize the Feedburner Chicklet”

1. Villager on March 26, 2007 5:19 pm

   This is a pretty cool customization for the Feedburner Chicklet. I was able to use your guidance to change the boring “Readers” to the infinitely more exciting “Villagers”! I am glad that I added your blog to my Technorati fav list over the weekend!

   peace, Villager

2. francesco mapelli on March 26, 2007 9:49 pm

   Or you can use my wondeful feedcount wordpress plugin that can be integrated in any wordpress theme and is css customizable

3. Rishi on March 26, 2007 10:00 pm

   Its wonderful but I guess displaying feedcount is good for those blogs only who have 100+ counts.

4. Daniel on March 27, 2007 2:05 am

   Thanks Villager!

   Francesco, that is I nice plugin, I will play with it a bit and give you my feedback.

   Rishi, yeah it would be a good idea to wait until you have some 100 subscribers and then show the feed count.

5. Napolux on March 27, 2007 2:58 am

   As Andrea says in his own post this trick came from my blog.

   Talking ’bout plugins take a look at MyAvatars, created by me and Andrea Micheloni, that shows MyBlogLog avatars in comments instead of gravatars

6. Daniel on March 27, 2007 4:05 am

   Napolux, the idea to write this tip came when I saw Andrea’s blog displaying two feeds, that is why I linked to him. The trick itself is much older, I had seen it like in 2 or 3 blogs last year.

   The MyAvatars plugin is a really nice one, and quite a few blogs use them so nice job!

7. Mike on March 27, 2007 6:42 am

   That’s pretty cool for branding. So, what are you going to customize yours to say?

8. Daniel on March 27, 2007 6:56 am

   Mike, good question. I think I will leave “readers” for the moment. If had no limitation on the number of letters I would certainly come up with something cool. Fans is a good one also, there a lot of blogs using it.

9. Mike on March 27, 2007 7:24 am

   I’m thinking of having a logo done for my most popular site which will probably end up using the letters BGD or BAGD(Be A Good Dad). When I do that maybe I’ll have to change the feedreader chiclet to say BGDs or BAGDs. I still think that is a pretty nifty customization opportunity.

   Any idea what the maximum number of characters allowed is?

10. Daniel on March 27, 2007 7:44 am

    I think you put as many as you want, but they will go outside the icon. It would be cool if we could use two words alternated, then you could use “Good” and “Dads”.

    Other than that I think that “BGDs” is nice and original. Let me know when you do the changes on your site.

11. George C. on March 27, 2007 8:40 am

    Great, that’s a good tip. Good work

12. David Airey :: Creative Design :: on April 2, 2007 2:37 am

    A nice tip indeed.

    I’ve changed my own count display.

    Thanks buddy.

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14. redwall_hp on October 27, 2007 4:07 am

    blogname?bg=246cb0&fg=000000 Muahahaha! You could replace 246cb0 with the code for ProBlogger or John Chow’s feed.

15. Bang Kritikus on January 28, 2009 8:33 am

    Very good article, but i don’t have subscibers

16. Sean Davis on July 1, 2009 8:12 pm

    Definitely a cool tip. I really wish it allowed more characters. I tried “Entrepreneurs” but it was too long. That would have made my day! Haha

17. Andrew Mooers on September 2, 2009 6:58 pm

    Big help and appreciate the tip!

18. Gustavo Robledo :: Gadgets 101 :: on September 29, 2009 5:29 pm

    Nice tutorial, although I only have 2 rss subscribers so far. lol The only thing I can’t figure out is how to put the chicklet next to my twitter counter. Is there a plugin or tutorial to help me figure this out?

19. sterndal on October 25, 2009 2:23 am

    hello

    i was just wondering if you could write a post about how to display number of subscribers in wordpress blog

    thanks!

20. aaslin on May 22, 2010 6:06 pm

    thanks for the useful post