Wordpress Hacks and Tweaks to Visually Empower Your Website | Desizn Tech

Description

One of the best thing about Wordpress is that the various type of customization it allows. Some little items on a website can make it look unprofessional, busy and constricted . With custom-fields, plugins and hacks you can truly make your wordpress site function the way you want. In this post, we share some hacks and tweaks, plugins which will make your wordpress theme clutter free, clean and user friendly.

Displaying Feedburner Subscribers Count ( Better Way)

Displaying your feedburner subscribers feed count is common thing in many web design blogs or any other regular sites. The problem is that the default chicklet customization is limited and you can can’t match it up with your theme. Moreover, if you try to validate your theme with feedburner chicket it won’t validate. So, here are a few solutions that can help you get rid of the ugly chicklet and still get the count:

Solutions#1

If you are not comfortable editing I would suggest you use a plugin to get your subscriber count. You can display the count in the sidebar and customize it with CSS. There is actually two plugins for this.

Feed Count 1.2

FeedBurnerCount

Feed Count is might not work for some newer themes, In that case you can use FeedBurnerCount which is the improved version of Feed Count. Process is fairly simple install the plugin call it in the sidebar or theme using <?php echo fbc_count() ?> for FeedBurnerCount and or <?php if (function_exists('fc_feedcount')) fc_feedcount(); ?> for Feedcount.

You can insert it this way:

<p><a href=”http://yourfeedlink” class=”feedcount”></a> <?php echo fbc_count() ?> </p>

Style the feed count text with the following CSS

.feedcount { your styles here }

You might run into another problem which is, if you add the code in the wordpress widgets it might not show up ...

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