40 Add Blogger Comment Count as Feedburner Feedflare
May 21, 2008 /

Until recently, it was not possible to display the number of comments for a post within our Blogger feeds.

However, via Google System I've learned that Feedburner have now added a new FeedFlare which you can use to display your post comment count in your Feedburner feed.

When readers click on the comment count link from your Feedburner feed, this will lead to the comments page for this post, enabling readers to read comments and add one of their own.

To activate this in your Feedburner feed, simply log in to your Feedburner account and click the link for the blog you wish to display the comment count.

Next, click on the Optimize tab, and then on the "FeedFlare" link in the sidebar.

On this page, you should easily spot the checkbox which says "Comments Count (Blogger)". Check the box which will display this FeedFlare in your actual blog feed (as this count should already be displayed in your blog posts).

Finally, save your FeedFlare settings for this new feature to take effect (or "activate" your Feedflare is you are not already using this particular feature of Feedburner yet!).

Using Intense Debate Comments?

For those who are using Intense Debate as their commenting system, you can also display your comment count using the Intense Debate comments Feedflare.

Simply log in to Intense Debate and click on the "Add-Ons tab in your dashboard.

On this page, look to the right-hand side of the screen where you will see the Feedburner Feedflare settings, like this:

Choose the blog for which you would like to display the comment count using the drop-down menu. This will then generate a unique URL in the box beneath.

Copy the URL from this box to your clipboard, and enter this in your Feedburner FeedFlare page in the box which says "Enter or Paste a FeedFlare Unit URL:

Then click the "Add New Flare" button.

Finally, save or activate your FeedFlare settings for this new feature to take effect.

Be patient!

In either case, the settings may not take effect immediately! It may be a few hours (or perhaps a day) before your new FeedFlare settings will become visible in your blog feed, though by the next feed count update, you should notice your comment count is visible when viewing your blog feed.

Also, you must ensure that you have activated the comment feeds for your posts in the Settings>Site Feed area of your Blogger dashboard. This is enabled by default, but do check to ensure you haven;t accidentally switched off this setting!

I hope this will be useful for you in adding your own comment count to your blog feeds. It's also another good reason to redirect your Blogger feeds through Feedburner if you aren't already doing so!

As always, please feel free to leave your comments and opinions below.

40 Comments:

21 May 2008 02:27 HR Wench said...

Thanks so much for this post. This is the exact topic I was planning on researching and then boom - there was your post about it in my reader. You must have ESP...

21 May 2008 04:29 Vincent X Shaw said...

Do I need to add the HTML code to use just the "add Blogger Comment Count as Feedburner Feedflare"

The bottom of the feedburner page had this:
"Get the HTML code to put FeedFlare on your site"

21 May 2008 13:41 template-godown said...

hi amanda, this is a cool trick. but havent try this to my blog since i have comment for my post rarely. anyway, is it possible to adopt commentluv as per wp for our blogger post? kindly let me know the how to. thanks.

21 May 2008 20:18 Agent 001 said...

I am already using it. It is little slow and the number of comments take time to update.

22 May 2008 21:16 Amanda said...

For HR Wench:

I'm glad to know this was useful for you too! With features like this, I try to post as soon as I hear about them so others can benefit too.

For Vincent X Shaw:

You don't need to add code to your Blogger template for this to work. Just tick the box on your Feedflare page to add this flare to your blog feed, and with the next Feedburner update, your feeds should include this data beneath every post.

Hope this helps!

For Template-godown:

I've recently looked into Commentluv with regard to Blogger, but I don't think this is suitable for use with Blogger as it uses PHP (which can't be integrated in Blogger posts).

But I'll be sure to post about it here if I find a workaround or alternative method!

For Agent001:

Yes, it does take some time to come into effect (I think Feedburner updates every 4-6 hours or so) so it may take some time for new comments to appear in the comment count.

Still, I find it a rather useful flare to use in my Feedburner feeds as this gives readers an idea of the discussion surrounding posts which pop-up in the feed reader :)

25 May 2008 18:39 HR Wench said...

Update: I added Blogger comment count as Feedburner Feedflare on May 21st. Here it is 4 days later and it's still not show up in Google Reader. :( Anyone else have the same experience?

27 May 2008 20:13 Amanda said...

For HR Wench:

I've just taken a look at your feed in Firefox and can't see the comment count either.

It's probably a good idea to check that this is activated for your feed in your Feedburner dashboard. If this still doesn't work later, you should report this as a bug in the Feedburner help forums, where hopefully someone from the team could take a look at your feed and fix the problem for you.

Hope this helps!

27 May 2008 21:27 HR Wench said...

I posted it at FeedBurner Help Group and someone is helping to find the answer. I'll post an update here when I get a definitive answer. Thanks!

30 May 2008 00:26 HR Wench said...

Update: my comments are finally showing up on new posts. Yay! Here is a link to the FB help group where I asked my question. Hope it can help others! http://groups.google.com/group/feedburner-services/browse_thread/thread/921108d39e935f32/259587f69b3a5d6d?hl=en#259587f69b3a5d6d

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I posted it at FeedBurner Help Group and someone is helping to find the answer. I'll post an update here when I get a definitive answer.

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