show number of followers

Hi flatrock,

The SubMe plugin doesn’t show the number of followers. It is also not possible to show this with just CSS. One way to show the number of followers is to change to SubMe plugin code. But then you would have to change the code every time the plugin gets updated. It is best to create a separate plugin that show the number of SubMe followers. To get you started I created an extra plugin you could use.

1. Create a file with the filename ‘subme_status.php’ in your /wp-content/plugins’ direcory and copy/paste the following code into it.

<?php

/*
 * Plugin Name: SubMe Status
 * Description: Displays the number of SubMe followers
 * Version: 1.0
 * Author: SubMe
 * Licence: GPL3
 */

class subme_status {
	public function init() {
		add_action( 'widgets_init', array( &$this, 'add_widget' ) );
	}

	function add_widget() {
		register_widget( 'subme_status_widget' );
	}
}

/* Subme Widget Class */
class subme_status_widget extends WP_Widget {
	public function __construct() {
		parent::__construct(
			'subme_status_widget',
			'Subme Status',
			array ('description' => 'Displays the number of SubMe followers', )
		);
	}

	public function form( $instance ) {
		$instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( 'title' => '' ) );
		$title = $instance['title'];
?>
		<p><label for="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_id('title') ); ?>">Title: <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_id('title') ); ?>" name="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_name('title') ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $title ); ?>" /></label></p>
<?php
	}

	/* Creating widget front-end */
	public function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		global $wpdb;

		extract( $args );

		$table = $wpdb->prefix . 'subme';
		$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS <code>followers</code> FROM $table WHERE <code>active</code>=1";
		if ( ! ( $result = $wpdb->get_results( $query ) ) ) {
			$followers = 0;
		} else {
			$followers = $result[0]->followers;
		} 

		$title = apply_filters( 'widget_title', $instance['title'] );

		/* Before and after widget arguments are defined by themes */
		echo $args['before_widget'];

		echo '<div class="widget-text wp_widget_plugin_box">';
			if ( $title ) {
				echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
			}

			if ( 1 == $followers ) {
				echo "There is 1 follower";
			} else {
				printf( "There are %d followers", $followers );
			}
		echo '</div>';	

		echo $args['after_widget'];
	}

	public function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {
		$instance = $old_instance;
		$instance['title'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['title'] );
		$instance['text'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['text'] );
		$instance['textarea'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['textarea'] );

		return $instance;
	}
}

global $my_subme_status;
$my_subme_status = new subme_status;
$my_subme_status->init();

?>

2. A plugin called ‘SubMe Status’ should now be visible in the Plugins admin panel of your WordPress site. Activate it.

3. Go to Appearance -> Widgets and move the ‘SubMe Status’ to wherever you want it to show.

If you follow the above steps correctly, then you should now see the number of active followers you have on your website.

Enjoy!

This is great, did as you said and the plug-in seemed to load fine and is active the Widgets area. However, the regular SubMe plug-in is currently showing 6 pages of members, but the SubMe_Status plug-in shows “0 followers” in the side bar.

any ideas?

Apparently, WordPress replaced the backticks (`) in the code above with tags. Removing the tags should do the trick. Replace the next line in the 'subme_status.php' file with the line following it.

Old line:
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS followers FROM $table WHERE active=1″;

New line:
$query = “SELECT COUNT(*) AS followers FROM $table WHERE active=1”;

Let me know if it works now.