Comments on: How to show the number of Twitter followers you have in WordPress

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:18:14 +0000

Hmm. It now says 0 followers! It's been working fine all year until now ...

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:07:53 +0000

Hi, Bil. Thanks for the comments - I had some trouble copying and pasting the code and getting it to show up here! I've fixed all that now.

Next job: go and read about the number_format_i18n() recommendation that Andrew made. (Everyone else: just use it!)

By: Andrew Nacin

Andrew Nacin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:37:23 +0000

Hey Malcolm, yeah, exactly. In terms of working out where you are, it bases it on the blog's language setting, not the reader's browser setting or anything like that.

By: Bil Simser

Bil Simser — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:45:20 +0000

Okay, obviously the comment engine strips out the PHP code. All PHP brackets need the ? symbol after the less then sign and before the greater than sign.

By: Bil Simser

Bil Simser — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:43:58 +0000

A couple of things to make this work.

1. The code you give in the sidebar.php is get_follower_count but the function in functions.php is get_twitter_count. You need to make both of these the same (doesn't matter what it's called but they need to match)

2. The code in the blog (at least in IE9) isn't showing the correct syntax for some versions of PHP. It should be . Note that it starts with ""

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:54:38 +0000

Hi, Andrew. As a core wordpress developer, I'm not going to disagree with you (especially as I only learned about number_format after a lot of googling!).
Is the difference that the the _i18n() version works out where you are and adjusts your commas and full stops accordingly?

By: Andrew Nacin

Andrew Nacin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:15:33 +0000

In WordPress, you'll want to leverage number_format_i18n() instead, especially in distributed plugins or themes, as then it'll play nicely on blogs in other languages.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:09:11 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!

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