Comments on: Getting RSS and Twitter Subscriber Counts in WordPress https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Mon, 04 May 2026 06:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-11778 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:58:06 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-11778 There’s a PHP function for that: http://php.net/manual/en/funct.....format.php

]]> By: TONES https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-11771 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:22:58 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-11771 How do I format the number with a comma in the thousand’s place?

for example, if i had a subscriber count of 20000, i want it to show as:

20,000

thanks! great tutorial :D

]]> By: redwall_hp https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-9257 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:19:51 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-9257 It depends on how your functions.php file is set up. Tell you what, send me an email (see About/Contact page) and include your functions.php file. I can have a look at it.

]]> By: Andrew Keir https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-9251 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:22:38 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-9251 yeah i realize it wouldn't use html, i meant that just to ask if their were php opening closing tags required, it seems not.

I'm not getting up to the point of putting the <?php my_subscriber_count(); ?> anywhere. Just white screens as soon as i add the code to my functions file.

im lost :(

]]> By: redwall_hp https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-9173 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:45:27 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-9173 It doesn't need <html> and </html> tags, as functions.php is just code, not really HTML.

Did you put the <?php my_subscriber_count(); ?> where you wanted the number to appear? (E.g. somewhere in the sidebar.php template.)

]]> By: Andrew Keir https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-9171 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:31:40 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-9171 Hi redwall,

Yep just the last big snippet. I tried adding just the code, also a " <?php " before the snippet and " ?> " after it.

My funtions.php seemed to be made up of 4-5 individual sections php captions ( thats the wrong terminology im sure, but you get what i mean? )

it doesnt seem to have opening and closing tags like <html> blahblahblah </html>.

is that wrong?

]]> By: redwall_hp https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-9154 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:14:47 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-9154 For starters, what are you adding to functions.php? Just the last snippet, the big one, right? Also, make sure your functions.php file has opening and closing PHP tags.

]]> By: Andrew Keir https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-9150 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:05:20 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-9150 When adding this to my functions.php it makes all my pages load as white screens only, obviously i'm missing something obvious? any suggestions?

]]> By: redwall_hp https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-8962 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:53:16 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-8962 If you use one of the first two code snippets, yes. It will call FeedBurner or Twitter on every page load, which isn't good. If you have a look at the last code snippet, you may notice that it has a caching mechanism. It will only call the services once every hour (3600 seconds).

]]> By: Dean Saliba https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/07/22/getting-rss-and-twitter-subscriber-counts-in-wordpress/#comment-8961 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:42:09 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2387#comment-8961 I was wondering this as well.

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