I just tried to install Steve Smith’s WordPress FeedBurner Plug-in, but it doesn’t work. FeedBurner gives me a 404 error when I update my feed URI with the randomly generated URI the plug-in creates.

It says on this Quick Start for WordPress page: “Make sure you are using WordPress’ permalinks structure,” which I’m not, so maybe that’s the problem.

Can anyone explain to me an easy way to redirect all my feed traffic through FeedBurner even though I’m using a custom permalinks structure?

[UPDATE] This is the key:

index.php MUST NOT be a part of your permalinks structure, edit it so that it is not present, or else you will get errors.

But if index.php is not part of my permalinks structure, I won’t be able to do the nifty Post Title = Permalinks thing. There was some important reason why I included index.php in the permalink structure, but I forget what it is. Darn.

OK, I found it. WordPress Tip on Permalink Options

My suggestion is to use a simple structure containing the post-slug as your Permalink URI. I use:
Structure: /index.php/archive/%postname%/

Note that there is an index.php embedded. This is fine with search engines and humans too. And it will work great. It doesn’t require mod_rewrite functionality or change to htaccess. Something as simple as this will work in all configurations.

I have no idea what “mod_rewrite functionality or change to htaccess” is, but it sounds scary as hell so that’s why I followed this guy’s suggestion and just left the index.php in there.

[UPDATE 2]

I took the “index.php” out of the permalink structure and it caused no problems. So the custom permalink structure “/archive/%postname%/” works great.