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<\/p>\nIn the first part of this series, I showed you how to programmatically retrieve the share count of various social media networks from their respective APIs using PHP.<\/p>\n
In this final part, we will develop a WordPress plugin that displays the number of Facebook likes, Twitter posts, and social share count of a specific URL.<\/p>\n
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To display the share count of a social network in a WordPress<\/strong> post or page, embed the shortcode of the social network as defined by the plugin. Let’s get started with the plugin development.<\/p>\n First, create a folder where all of the plugin files will be stored. Let’s name it Include the plugin header in the plugin PHP file. Without the header, WordPress will not recognize the plugin.<\/p>\n [php] \/* Create the PHP class and initialize the required methods at the magic [php] \tfunction __construct() {<\/p>\n \t\tadd_shortcode( ‘facebook-share’, array( $this, ‘facebook_share’ ) );<\/p>\n \t\tadd_shortcode( ‘facebook-page-like’, array( $this, ‘facebook_page_like’ ) );<\/p>\n \t\tadd_shortcode( ‘pinterest-count’, array( $this, ‘pinterest_count’ ) );<\/p>\n \t\tadd_shortcode( ‘tweet-count’, array( $this, ‘tweet_count’ ) );<\/p>\n \t\tadd_shortcode( ‘google-plus’, array( $this, ‘google_plus_count’ ) );<\/p>\n \t\tadd_shortcode( ‘linkedin-share’, array( $this, ‘linkedin_share’ ) );<\/p>\n \t\tadd_shortcode( ‘stumbledupon’, array( $this, ‘stumbledupon_share’ ) ); In the code above, we defined the shortcode (first function argument) for the various social networks and their respective callback function (second function argument) via the Before we start writing code for the various shortcode callback functions, we’ll create two helper class methods that accept an API call as its parameter and return the JSON output back to the callback function for processing.<\/p>\n Below are the two helper functions: [php] \t\t$response = wp_remote_get( $url ); \t\t\/\/ if api call is pinterest, make the response pure json \t\treturn json_decode( $body ); [php] \t\t$query = ‘ \t\t$response = wp_remote_post( \t\treturn json_decode( wp_remote_retrieve_body( $response ), true ); The initial will handle GET request for the entire social network we are majoring except that of Google+ (a POST request), which will be handled by the latter.<\/p>\n When the shortcode for Facebook likes and share count is active [php] \t\treturn $this->get_response_body( $api_call )->shares . ‘ Facebook Likes & Shares’;<\/p>\n \t} The [php] \t\treturn $this->get_response_body( $api_call )->likes . ‘ Facebook Page Like’; The function [php] \t\t$url = $atts[‘url’]; \t\treturn $this->get_response_body( $api_call, ‘pinterest’ )->count . ‘ Pinterest Pins’; When the shortcode for the Twitter tweet count is active, [php] \t\t$url = $atts[‘url’]; \t\treturn $this-&gt;get_response_body( $api_call )-&gt;count . ‘ Tweets’;<\/p>\n \t} The callback function for LinkedIn share is [php] \t\treturn $count . ‘ LinkedIn Shares’; [php] \t\treturn $count . ‘ Stumbles’; [php] \t\treturn $count . ‘ Google Plus’; Below is the singleton method that will instantiate the class to make it active.<\/p>\n [php] \t\tif ( ! $instance ) { \t}Plugin Development<\/h2>\n
designmodo-social-count<\/code>.<\/p>\n
\n<?php<\/p>\n
\nPlugin Name: Designmodo Social Media Count
\nPlugin URI: https:\/\/designmodo.com
\nDescription: Display social media count.
\nVersion: 1.0
\nAuthor: Agbonghama Collins
\nAuthor URI: https:\/\/w3guy.com
\n*\/
\n[\/php]<\/p>\n__construct<\/code>.<\/p>\n
\nclass Designmodo_Social_Count {<\/p>\n
\n\t}
\n[\/php]<\/p>\nadd_shortcode<\/code> function.<\/p>\nget_response_body<\/code> and post_response_body<\/code><\/p>\n
\n\tfunction get_response_body( $url, $type = ” ) {<\/p>\n
\n\t\t$body = wp_remote_retrieve_body( $response );<\/p>\n
\n\t\tif ( $type == ‘pinterest’ ) {
\n\t\t\t$body = preg_replace( ‘\/^receiveCount\\((.*)\\)$\/’, ‘\\\\1’, $body );
\n\t\t}<\/p>\n
\n\t}
\n[\/php]<\/p>\n
\n\tfunction post_response_body( $url ) {<\/p>\n
\n\t\t[{
\n\t\t "method": "pos.plusones.get",
\n\t\t "id": "p",
\n\t\t "params": {"nolog": true, "id": "’ . $url . ‘", "source": "widget", "userId": "@viewer", "groupId": "@self"},
\n\t\t "jsonrpc": "2.0",
\n\t\t "key": "p",
\n\t\t "apiVersion": "v1"
\n\t\t}]
\n\t\t‘;<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t‘https:\/\/clients6.google.com\/rpc’,
\n\t\t\tarray(
\n\t\t\t\t‘headers’ => array( ‘Content-type’ => ‘application\/json’ ),
\n\t\t\t\t‘body’ => $query
\n\t\t\t)
\n\t\t);<\/p>\n
\n\t}
\n[\/php]<\/p>\n[facebook-share url=\"https:\/\/xyz.com\"]<\/code>, the callback function facebook_share<\/code> is called.<\/p>\n
\nfunction facebook_share( $atts ) {
\n\t\t$url = $atts[‘url’];
\n\t\t$api_call = ‘https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/?id=’ . $url;<\/p>\n
\n[\/php]<\/p>\nfacebook_page_like()<\/code> below is the callback function for the Facebook page like<\/strong> shortcode.<\/p>\n
\nfunction facebook_page_like( $atts ) {
\n\t\t$username = $atts[‘username’];
\n\t\t$api_call = ‘https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/?id=https:\/\/facebook.com\/’ . $username;<\/p>\n
\n\t}
\n[\/php]<\/p>\npinterest_count<\/code> is the callback function for the Pinterest share<\/em> shortcode.<\/p>\n
\nfunction pinterest_count( $atts ) {<\/p>\n
\n\t\t$api_call = ‘https:\/\/api.pinterest.com\/v1\/urls\/count.json?callback%20&url=’ . $url;<\/p>\n
\n\t}
\n[\/php]<\/p>\ntweet_count<\/code> callback function is called.<\/p>\n
\nfunction tweet_count( $atts ) {<\/p>\n
\n\t\t$api_call = ‘https:\/\/cdn.api.twitter.com\/1\/urls\/count.json?url=’ . $url;<\/p>\n
\n[\/php]<\/p>\nlinkedin_share<\/code>.<\/p>\n
\nfunction linkedin_share( $atts ) {
\n\t\t$url = $atts[‘url’];
\n\t\t$api_call = ‘https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/countserv\/count\/share?url=’ . $url . ‘&amp;format=json’;
\n\t\t$count = $this-&gt;get_response_body( $api_call )-&gt;count;<\/p>\n
\n\t}
\n[\/php]<\/p>\nstumbledupon_share<\/code> is the callback function for StumbleUpon.<\/p>\n
\nfunction stumbledupon_share( $atts ) {
\n\t\t$url = $atts[‘url’];
\n\t\t$api_call = ‘https:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/services\/1.01\/badge.getinfo?url=’ . $url;
\n\t\t$count = $this->get_response_body( $api_call )->result->views;<\/p>\n
\n\t}
\n[\/php]<\/p>\ngoogle_plus_count()<\/code> is the callback function for the Google+ shortcode.<\/p>\n
\nfunction google_plus_count( $atts ) {
\n\t\t$url = $atts[‘url’];
\n\t\t$count = $this->post_response_body( $url )[0][‘result’][‘metadata’][‘globalCounts’][‘count’];<\/p>\n
\n\t}
\n[\/php]<\/p>\n
\nstatic function get_instance() {
\n\t\tstatic $instance = false;<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t$instance = new self;
\n\t\t}<\/p>\n
\n[\/php]<\/p>\n
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