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By: Asif Istiak

Asif Istiak — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:19:29 +0000

Great post man! I will try it out too. Wish I could solve this problem with my chicklet coz I don't have a better place for showing as text. Asif Istiaks last blog post..10 Live Player | Stream Mobile Media

By: Nicholas | Pixobyte.com

Nicholas | Pixobyte.com — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:00:16 +0000

Hmmn, I tried this hack in blog, but had this same problem of 0 count, Thanks for the solution I will implement this soon in my blog..

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:18:33 +0000

Ohh, and thanks for the welcome. Have been reading the blog for a long long time now. Just thought I could comment on this one

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By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:17:56 +0000

The Feedburner count is updated only once a day. Hence, you should bother pulling the API only once a day, or you can run it for once every twelve hours. This is rather simple if you use the inbuilt WP-Cron or if you use the cache. Using WP-Cron ensures that you don't need to use a cache and the count is updated every 12/24 hours and saved in the db. Another option is like I mentioned above. Ajays last blog post..Better Search v1.1 released

By: Raju

Raju — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:47:06 +0000

@Ajay,
Welcome to my blog. i am glad to see your comment. I understand why you prefer it to be cached and stored in the options table, but what I don’t understand is – if reading the new count happens only once a day? Only then your approach would work, if not it might cache and store even 0 or N/A . Hope you got my point.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:33:04 +0000

A better fix is to daily save the feedcount into the options table or into a cache file. Before reading the new count, you should dump the old count in your $fc. Ajays last blog post..Better Search v1.1 released

By: venkat

venkat — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:10:26 +0000

Raju what u said is right ,I recently visited a blog that is showing 24000 subscribers ,I doubted that and checked adding ~fc to feed address url, I found that blog has only 600 subscribers,that's really cheating readers. venkats last blog post..The Funny Flash Mind Reader Game

By: Raju

Raju — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:53:21 +0000

@David,
That is true But if the intention is to cheat then one can directly “hardcode” the number, no need to code so much to get it from Feedburner
And there is a way to cross check if the numbers are genuine or not.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~fc/TechnicallyPersonal should give the actual count. You can replace TechnicallyPersonal with any other blog’s feed name.

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:01:30 +0000

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