RSS Redirect & Feedburner Alternative

What It Does

This plugin redirects your WordPress site's default RSS feeds to follow.it's hosted feed management service, giving publishers a Feedburner-like alternative with subscription tracking, analytics, and reader management. It captures all standard WordPress feed URLs (including category and tag feeds) and routes them through follow.it, so you keep your existing feed URL structure while moving the backend to a third-party platform.

Who It's For

This plugin fits small to mid-sized publishers who want Feedburner-style subscriber analytics and email subscription widgets without paying for premium RSS services. It is especially useful for content creators running newsletter opt-ins, multi-feed networks, or anyone who still relies on RSS as a discovery channel for their audience.

Who Should Skip It

If you already use a full-featured newsletter platform like Mailchimp, ConvertKit, or MailerLite, this plugin adds an unnecessary dependency for a function those tools already handle natively. Sites that do not care about RSS subscriber metrics or have very low RSS readership will get little value from the redirect layer.

The Bottom Line

This is a lean, focused plugin that does one job well: redirecting WordPress feeds to a managed analytics platform without changing your feed URLs. The 98 percent user rating is impressive, but the tiny install base and absent support footprint mean you are betting on a niche tool from a smaller vendor. Worth trying if Feedburner migration is on your roadmap, but verify follow.it's long-term pricing before committing production traffic to it.

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