Comments on: [How to] Fix “0 Subscribers” Bug of Feedburner API

By: Garish Wasil

Garish Wasil — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:07:42 +0000

Thanks a lot buddy. I was having the same problem (with my thesis skin) and you really helped me.

By: Raju

Raju — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:54:48 +0000

it’s highly unlikely that the problem is on Feedburner’s side. Are you using a a CMS like WordPress? Do you have an option to enter Feedburner’s URI somewhere? If so, have you entered the URI correctly?
From what i understand, even inside your Feedburner account, it is saying 0 subscribers. If nothing works, you can try to delete and recreate the Feedburner account.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:48:09 +0000

Hi. I read your post and am wondering if you could help with my problem. I have a very new website and yet have several big problems w/ Feedburner.

I know that I have about 3 people (I know this sounds ridiculous, but I did just start my blog and I haven’t told barely anyone about it b/c I wanted to make sure that I had things working first and it is still very much in the bare bones stage) subscribed to my site via email (self, husband and a friend or two) but feedburner shows no subscribers. I think that I added feedsmith successfully yesterday and thought that was the issue, but today it still shows no subscribers.

Also if I check feedburner / ‘publicize’, then ‘Email Subscriptions’, then ‘Subscription Management’.it shows no subscibers and though I selected the option to be notified when someone cancels his subscription, I cancelled mine the other day and got no notification. Granted, I signed up right again to see if the subscription count was working but I assume that I should have gotten a notification.

Do you have any ideas what might be happening?

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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