I believe you’ve seen websites and blogs that uses the text-based Feedburner subscriber count instead of the chicklet. I hope you are not getting the idea the these guys update their feed count manually. Instead, it can be done easily with scripts, and the reason why you want to do is – it gives you total flexibility in terms of design, styling and display.

Step 1

Copy paste the following code into your template, replace feedburner-id with your Feedbuner username. This script will grab you the feed count in numbers.

//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);

//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);

//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
//end get cool feedburner count

Step 2

Paste this anywhere you want and it’ll display a Feedburner subscriber count in text.

echo $fb;

To style it nicely with your website or blog’s theme, add <p> or <div> and tweak the CSS accordingly

Some times ago, I shown you how to display your last twitter entry on your WordPress blog. Today, let’s create a button to allow your visitors to send the current post they’re reading to twitter. It is not that hard so simple code can do that. so here is the code.

Share on Twitter

This way Your readers are now able to send your post url to twitter! Hope it will bring you some traffic and new readers!

The problem with free and lately even premium Wordpress themes is that you will certainly not be the only one using them. You can forget about the whole concept of unique web design. What stimulates your web design censors probably attracts many others as well. But there are still ways to obtain a cool theme with guaranteed uniqueness. To remind you, here are the optional three.

I am excited to announce a new WordPress theme - Classy Red.

This theme has a simplistic Red & white design and will suit anyone who runs a WordPress blog.

Classy Red is a 3-columns and Widget-ready theme. Come with splash image above the menu navigation. The splash size is a 972px width and 239px height. You can replace Header.jpg with your own.

The this is fully CSS/XHTML validated and has been tested with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers without any problems.

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