When you first install your wordpress blog, there are a lot of features or options that you MUST do before you enter you first post. I’ll go through those one by one in another post, but one of the primary things is to setup your Feedburner account. Feedburner is “the” feed provision service that you must use to truly harness the power of your work. All Wordpress blogs have built in feed creation software for providing your content to the masses, but Feedburner takes it a step farther and allows for many features. I’ll cover that in another post. The thing about setting up feed burner, is that you must have at least one post before it recognizes the feed because without the post, there is no feed. Make sense?

Your Wordpress blog comes with one post and one comment by default. It’s like Wordpress is providing you with one post so that when you install your first template, you will be able to see what a post with a comment will look like. Thing is, it’s built into the system and is not really appearing in your feed.

To facilitate burning a feed with Feedburner, you have to make at least one entry which will then allow Wordpress to publish a feed with that entry which Feedburner will then recognize. Without it you’ll get some sort of cryptic error message saying “improper nested tag” or “expected blah at blah … and I can’t continue”. It just means that there’s no feed to grab yet.

Once you’ve got a feed burned, then you can customize so many parts of it and use it to yours and your readers advantage. More on that later.

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