How To Display Feedburner Subscriber Count as Text in WordPress

You probably have seen blogs that are displaying FeedBurner Subscriber count as text instead of that annoying chicklet. The ability to display the subscriber count gives you a lot of control over styling and make the count work with your design. Therefore in this article we will share a way you can display FeedBurner subscriber count as text in WordPress.

First you would need to paste this code in the template file of your choice where you want to display the text for example sidebar.php. Be sure to change your FeedBurner ID. It is the name you have after the url so wpbeginner for our site.

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<?php

02	//get cool feedburner count

03	$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=your feedburner id";

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05	//Initialize the Curl session

06	$ch = curl_init();

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08	//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.

09	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

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11	//Set the URL

12	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);

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14	//Execute the fetch

15	$data = curl_exec($ch);

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17	//Close the connection

18	curl_close($ch);

19	$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);

20	$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];

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echo $fb;

22	//end get cool feedburner count

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?>

You can surround it with the styling you like.