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Have you ever wanted to show the total number of registered users on your WordPress site? Social proof like showing the number of registered users on your site, encourages others to register as well. In this article, we will show you how to show total number of registered users in WordPress. Method 1: Show Registered User Count Using a WordPress Plugin First thing you need to do is install and activate the Simple Blog Stats plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin . Upon activation, you need to visit Settings » Simple Blog Stats page to configure plugin settings. This plugin allows you to show different stats from your WordPress site. You need to click on the shortcodes tab to expand it and then scroll down to the ‘number of users’ row. You will see the shortcode [sbs_users] with two text fields on both sides. These text fields contain HTML the plugin will add before and after the number of users. By … [Read more...] about How to Show Total Number of Registered Users in WordPress

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Do you want to display your MailChimp subscriber count? Recently one of our users asked us how they can show their MailChimp subscriber count in WordPress. Displaying social proof encourages other users to join your newsletter. In this article, we will show you how to show your MailChimp subscriber count in WordPress. MailChimp is one of the most beginner friendly email marketing service provider. If you are not already using MailChimp, then check out our guide on using MailChimp with WordPress . We will be showing two different methods to display MailChimp subscribers count. The first method is easier and requires you to install a WordPress plugin. The second method is more advanced where you will need to create a plugin based on different source files. If you are not comfortable with editing code snippets, then we will recommend you to use the first method instead. Method 1: Using MailChimp Subscriber Chiclet Plugin First thing you need to do is install and activate the … [Read more...] about How to Show Your MailChimp Subscriber Count in WordPress

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When you first start your blog, you have no idea what it will become over the course of years. It is always interesting to see stats like total posts, total comments, etc. But recently we stumbled onto a pretty cool plugin that shows you the total word count of your blog along with numerous other stats. As you write a post, WordPress shows you the word count at the bottom of the post edit area, but there is no easy way to display that count in public or even in private. In this article, we will show you how to get the total word count stats in WordPress, so you can see word count for specific authors, specific post types, and more. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Word Stats plugin. Upon activation the plugin adds Word Stats link under Dashboard. Clicking on it will take you to the word count stats page. The plugin will show you the total number of published words for each specific post type as well as individual author. You can also see the word count … [Read more...] about How to Get Word Count Stats in WordPress with Word Stats

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When you are displaying comment count it is always good to display the accurate comment count. WordPress by default includes your trackbacks and pings into the total count which actually inflates the count. Specially some blogs that does not show trackbacks, or has them separated from the comments, you need to make sure that you are displaying the right count. In this article we will show you how you can display the correct comment count through a small snippet which will filter out trackbacks and pings and only display the actual comment count to your users. Open your functions.php which is located in your template folder. And Paste the following code in there: add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comment_count', 0); function comment_count( $count ) { if ( ! is_admin() ) { global $id; $comments_by_type = &separate_comments(get_comments('status=approve&post_id=' . $id)); return count($comments_by_type['comment']); } else { return $count; } } With this snippet, you can now … [Read more...] about Display the Most Accurate Comment Count in WordPress

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Have you come across a site that shows their social media followers count along with the icons? Recently, one of our users asked us if there was an easy way to show their social media follower count as text in WordPress without writing any code . In this article, we will show you how to display social media followers count as text in WordPress. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Social Count Plus plugin. Upon activation, you need to go to Settings » Social Count Plus to enter your social media profiles. First you need to enter your Twitter username without the @ sign. e.g. wpbeginner . To obtain Twitter consumer key, consumer secret, access token, and access token secret keys, you need to visit Twitter Developer website and create a Twitter App. Don’t worry it sounds harder than it really is, and we will walk you through the process. First you need to sign in with your Twitter username and password. Once you are logged in, you need to click … [Read more...] about How to Display Social Media Followers Count as Text in WordPress

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