Compass Designs .net

So I have been updating my Joomla book website, I discovered a problem with my RSS. Ironically, I discuss exactly NOT doing what I did in the book, but do as I say, not what I do (or something).

I wanted to redesign my home page. Right now its a category blog - an obvious choice for book news - and then fixed content in the category description. I wanted to change because it's difficult to manage the meta description in Joomla in this layout, so I wanted to change it to a uncategorized article, and then load { loadposition } to show news links.

The problem was was that I had used a raw RSS URL for my feed
http://www.joombook.com/index.php?format=feed&type=rss
and this URL was in people's news feeds.

With a new home page layout, that link will be broken.

My own advice that I failed to take is always to push a Joomla RSS url into a service like Feedburner. Then you can change the pushed URL as much as you like, then just edit it in (say) the Feedburner settings.

The messy solution in my case is to mess around in the innards of my htaccess file and create a redirect from the old raw URL to my new Feedburner URL: