Adding a Facebook Like Button on your website or blog is perhaps one of the easiest and most effective way to get more fans and earn more likes. If you have hundreds, thousand or perhaps tens of thousand of fans, it might be a good idea to publish a fan count. Fan count displays in numeric text total fans your Facebook page has, or rather, how many have liked your page.
In the world of Internet marketing, it can really pay off to integrate your social feeds with your website. By connecting your Facebook page to your site, you have the ability to market your brand or product using more than one platform. When people begin to be invested in your brand, you have the potential to turn interested parties into paying customers. If you’re using WordPress to run your website, you have a few easy options to display your Facebook fan count on your site.
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How To Get And Display Your Facebook Page Fans Counts In WordPress?
Below we are sharing the snippet to get the count of your Facebook fa page likes only in simple text without any extra data or style so that you can add your own design or style too. So copy the below code and use where you want to use it.
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
* Get Your Facebook Page Likes Count Only
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
<?php
$page_id = "YOUR-PAGE_ID-CODE";
$xml = @simplexml_load_file("http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.fql.query&query=SELECT%20fan_count%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20page_id=".$page_id."") or die ("a lot");
$fans = $xml->page->fan_count;
echo $fans;
?>Customization:
You just have to change YOUR-PAGE_ID-CODE with your Facebook fan page ID that you can get by following our previous article at FaceBook Profile/Page ID-Code Finder Online Tool.
Theme Files Editing Warning:
Keep in mind that every code that you will add in your themes files will be removed when you will change the theme. So after changing your theme, you have to follow this article again and you will get everything back same as it is now.
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