Feedburner Circulation

Returns your Feedburner Circulation Count. Reduces the Feedburner API calls by updating hourly and serving a database cached result in between.

Author:Derek Herman (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.7
WordPress version tested:3.0.5
Plugin version:1.2
Added to WordPress repository:18-06-2009
Last updated:06-12-2010
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Plugin URI:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburne...
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Returns a database stored Feedburner Circulation Count in plain text or number format. Reduces the Feedburner API calls by only updating the circulation count hourly and serving a database cached result in between. The account you're attempting to get a "Circulation Count" from must have the awareness API turned on.

You can use the function <?php circulation_count( $ids, $default, $echo, $format ); ?> in your theme files. The following is an explanation of the parameters the function excepts.

  • @param array $ids an array of Feedburner Feed IDs
  • @param int $default your fallback circulation count during a zero result: default 0
  • @param bool $echo return or echo: default true (echo)
  • @param bool $format return as plain integer or number formatted: default true (number format)

For example, if I was Psdtuts+ and wanted to echo out a circulation count that had a fallback or default circulation count in the unlikely event nothing is stored in the database or there is a weird zero result returned, I would do the follow.

<?php circulation_count( 'psdtuts', 15000 ); ?>

If I wanted to save the count to a variable as a plain integer that I could add to another count or something similar I would do this.

<?php $circulation_count = circulation_count( 'psdtuts', 15000, false, false ); ?>

If I wanted to echo a formatted count form an array of $ids with a fallback, I would do this.

<?php circulation_count( array('psdtuts', 'nettuts'), 200000 ); ?>