Tweaking my web blog, I wanted to add RSS feed button for each post so that it could remind and provide readers to easily subscribe after reading the written post.
That's when I decided to create a BlogEngine.NET extension on my installed Visual C# 2008 Express Edition that could generate a web feed button on each post and I want to share this to the BlogEngine.NET community.
This extension is based from the Social Bookmarking extension by Mayank Raichura which uses the Add This social bookmarking and sharing buttons and Social Bookmarks extension by Danny Douglas. I recommend that you see their sites, as they have great extensions or plugins for BlogEngine.NET.
What is Add This Feed extension?
This BlogEngine.NET extension uses the features of Add This which is a free web based button that lets your viewers and visitors to share your content, and can increase traffic to your website or blog. The extension lets you easily add an Add This RSS Web feed button at your every post.
Download Add This Feed - Website Feed Button for BlogEngine.NET
AddThisFeed.zip (3.01 kb)
How to use Add This Feed?
1. Download the Add This Feed extension.
2. Extract the .zip file and add the AddThisFeed.cs file to your App_Code/Extensions folder.
3. Finish! Check your blog Extension Manager and edit the settings.
Editting the settings
- Checking this will let you use a anonymous id which you could not monitor your traffic.
- This is your username to let you track and monitor your traffic. Use your Add This username, in case you have no Add This account, just sign-up or register in their site. (It's free.)
- You could use only the values feed and rss. How your button looks depend on the value of the image type.
Checking this button expands your button. See the image below.
- Check this if you only want the Add This Web feed button to show on full post.
- Enter you rss or feed url. I recommend you use feedburner to monitor your feeds. In case you don't know your feed url, the default for the BlogEngine is http://yourwebsiteblog/syndication.axd just change the "yourwebsiteblog" the the address of your site.
- Hit save after you are finished editting the settings.
- Check your blog and see the changes.