Number of feed subscribers, if it’s large, is really good recommendation and a way to encourage people to subscribe. Have you ever wanted to have plain number of your feed subscribers on Feed Burner which you can edit and style in a way you want/need instead that regular Feed Burner image? Well I did and I looked over Feed Burner documentation and ran into just some API which wasn’t really helpful for me.
Just couple days ago my friend Brian Purkiss told me on KnowHow forum how it can be done, so I’ll shortly describe you process. I’m using it on this site – feed on the right
This only works for WP because plugin is being used, you can download it directly here or visit authors site and setup it in few steps
- Upload feedcount.php to your wordpress plugin directory
- Activate the plugin from the plugins tab
- Play with the options (Options -> Feed Count) to fit your needs
- Be sure to have Awareness API for your feedburner account enabled (to enable it log in to your feedburner account, go to the Publicize tab, click on the Awareness API service and enable it).
- Put <?php if (function_exists('fc_feedcount')) fc_feedcount(); ?> where you want your feed count to appear.
And it will generate this code in your page and apply some CSS to it
<div class="feedcountdiv"> <span class="feedcount"> <span class="before">Only</span> <span class="subscribers">9999</span> <span class="after">subscribers!</span> </span> </div>
Or you can open feedcount.php and edit it a bit. For example I’ve removed everything in print besides print "($number)"; so have just plain number and no div and p.
Have some feedback? Leave a comment
Thanks for the link
Nice post.
Very well written and exhaustive.
Do you mean plain?
Sorry to be a typo nazi, but do you mean plain?
Yes, thanks for noticing and sorry about that
Dejan, Its a great article and and well written. Thanks for the link as well.
I like the idea but I think that while a plain feed number is a good idea, you do not want it to be TOO plain! It still needs to stand out.
Hope you do not mind me saying this but I actually struggled to find your feed numbers and so I would suggest to stylise it a bit to make it stand out more. I saw that as 97 is a good number!
@ Jermayn Parker
Thank you for your critic! I appreciate it and i agree with you. This is because i didn’t plan to have it when i was designing this site, i will just make it bold for now, b/c I’m planing redesign soon
@Dejan – That is much better!!
I would probably even suggest to add “feed readers” or something so people know what the number is all about!!
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. You have hit the nail on the head, just like you always do.
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