Many bloggers use Feedburner to display the number of their subscribers. If you want to be able to show the average number of them over the past 7 days, here is the code that is useful for this purpose.
As usual, first of all you need to insert this function into the functions.php file of your theme:
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function get_average_readers($feed_id,$interval = 7){ |
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$today = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("now")); |
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$ago = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-".$interval." days")); |
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$feed_url="https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=".$feed_id."&dates=".$ago.",".$today; |
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); |
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $feed_url); |
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$data = curl_exec($ch); |
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$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data); |
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$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation']; |
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foreach($xml->feed->children() as $circ){ |
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$nb += $circ['circulation']; |
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return round($nb/$interval); |
Further, you can call this function anywhere on the site, but for this you need to specify id Feedburner as a parameter:
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$nb = get_average_readers('wpincode'); |
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echo "I have ".$nb." RSS subscribers"; |
