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I am using Feedburner counter with text in most of my WordPress themes. Recently, I found that they are not working properly due to the conversion of Feedburner to Google FeedProxy. Today, I found a solution thanks to one of my theme user. I will show you how to do that. I will use the feed.php in my premium theme – Our Community. If you are still using Feedburner service, then you can ignore this tutorial. This is just for those who are using Google FeedProxy.

The Existing Feed File.

<?php
	$last_update = intval(get_option('feed_lastupdate'));
	$now = time();
	if(($now - $last_update) > (60*60*24)) :
		//get cool feedburner count
		$feed = get_option('feed');
		$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=$feed";

		//Initialize the Curl session
		$ch = curl_init();

		//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		//Set the URL
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
		//Execute the fetch
		$data = curl_exec($ch);
		//Close the connection
		curl_close($ch);

		$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
		$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
		if(!$fb) :
			$fb = 0;
		endif;
		update_option("feed_count", $fb."");
		//end get cool feedburner count

		update_option("feed_lastupdate", $now."");
	endif;

	$feed_uri = get_option('feed');
	if(!$feed_uri or $feed_uri == '') :
		$feed_uri = get_bloginfo('rss2_url');
	else :
		$feed_uri = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/' . $feed_uri;
	endif;
?>

<a href="<?php echo $feed_uri; ?>" title="Feed Subscriber Count"><?php echo get_option("feed_count");?></a>

Editing

Change this:

$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=$feed";

Into This:

$whaturl="https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=$feed";

And this:

$feed_uri = 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/' . $feed_uri;

Into This:

$feed_uri = 'http://feedproxy.google.com/' . $feed_uri;

Full Code:

<?php
	$last_update = intval(get_option('feed_lastupdate'));
	$now = time();
	if(($now - $last_update) > (60*60*24)) :
		//get cool feedburner count
		$feed = get_option('feed');
		$whaturl="https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=$feed";

		//Initialize the Curl session
		$ch = curl_init();

		//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		//Set the URL
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
		//Execute the fetch
		$data = curl_exec($ch);
		//Close the connection
		curl_close($ch);

		$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
		$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
		if(!$fb) :
			$fb = 0;
		endif;
		update_option("feed_count", $fb."");
		//end get cool feedburner count

		update_option("feed_lastupdate", $now."");
	endif;

	$feed_uri = get_option('feed');
	if(!$feed_uri or $feed_uri == '') :
		$feed_uri = get_bloginfo('rss2_url');
	else :
		$feed_uri = 'http://feedproxy.google.com/' . $feed_uri;
	endif;
?>

<a href="<?php echo $feed_uri; ?>" title="Feed Subscriber Count"><?php echo get_option("feed_count");?></a>

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