This plugin let you create your customized twitter (X) followers, Facebook fans, YouTube Subscribers, WordPress members counters. It creates widget or let you display these counters as raw text anywhere in your template or post/page content. You get it as a text so you may customize design with your own HTML/CSS. All design and icons may be easily customized.
With this plugin you will not need any more third party buttons or scripts as it connects directly to Facebook, twitter and YouTube APIs. This plugin should speed up your blog as counters are cached in your database and are refreshed no more than once per 2 hours. With third party buttons every page load gets all counter data from external websites that slow down you blog.
Quick howto:
- To display counters use following tags:
twitter,facebook,youtube,wordpress,all - To display links use following tags:
twitterlink,facebooklink,youtubelink - In widget area use it like this: %twitter%
- In post/page content use it like this: [stcounter type=”twitter”]
- In templates use it like this: <?php echo stcounter(‘twitter’) ?>
This plugin require PHP in version 5 or higher!