I’ve just released a new WordPress plugin: FeedBurnerCount. It gets the job of retrieving feed readers from the FeedBurner API done efficiently.

Lately it seems the API is up and down all the time, many times providing invalid data, and recently moved to a new URI. The one plugin that solves this same task hasn’t been updated in months, and it’s not ready for an inconsistent API, which results in a N/A count all the time.

FeedBurnerCount can maintain your feed count even if the Awareness API is not working (or you can specify a custom message for those situations), and calculate the average readers count in a period of time. It also sniffs your feedburner details (if the FeedBurner plugin installed) for an impossibly easier setup.

Head to the the plugin page for more details.

The plugin

Not only the new version fixes dozens of bugs, it also ships with impressive new features that will blow your mind (and your blog readers) away.

Some of them are:

• Plugins support. You’ll be able to install them with only one click.
• Cross-platform. Guaranteed to work flawlessly on every hosting and setup scenario.
• Ajax campaign processing. Process your campaign with a neat progress bar, right from the admin panel, asynchronously.
• … and 27 more!.

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Some important and some not-as-important bug fixes in this version. Hopefully this will be the last release candidate before the grand 1.0 release:

• Tables not deleted anymore upon installation
• Fixed SimplePie error report.
• Fixed small post content bug (not hidden by default)
• Fixed cron url
• Removed inverted quotes from queries
• Fixed notices in debug mode
• No error showing for campaigns w/o feeds fixed

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As usual, head to Lighthouse for bug reports

Here is the upcoming RC3 release!

Remember that, just like any release prior to 1.0, upgrading will erase your previous campaigns, feeds, logs, etc.

• Now compatible with WordPress 2.5
• Categories shown with indentation (parent > children now separated)
• SimplePie updated to 1.1.1, and SimplePie Core now supported.
• Fixed broken cron command
• Fixed broken export on some systems
• Fixed broken redirect when resetting a campaign
• Everything now stored in GMT to avoid time issues. Gotten rid of NOW() functions in favor of WP time functions
• Fixed bug with validation upon deletion of feeds in existing campaigns
• Fixed bug with ‘allow comments’ setting.
• Fixed bug with logs dates
• Fixed bug with double quote escaping (fixes campaign templates / rewrite html bugs)
• Username in options tab changed to a more handy select box.
• Interface now looks better on IE (d’oh)
• Added many help files
• Fixed annoying duplicates bug
• Fixed small bug in import with labels

I need feedback on:

• All sorts of errors, warnings, notices, blank screens
• Styling problems, indicating Browser, OS, URL and a screenshot.
• Behavioral problems: bad dates, bad content, duplicates, etc
• Performance problems
• Unexpected behavior

Always include instructions on how to reproduce the issues please!

Go ahead and download it

Updates

• 1 – Fixed bugs with categories in edit mode and posts tools (thanks Mike)
• 2 – Fixed empty rewrite bug (thanks Mike) and replacements now case insensitive
• 3 – Fixed bugs with ‘use feed date’ option, footer copyright, bad dates in ‘view all’ logs, log message field made text, timestamps converted to datetime, ‘Clean logs’ function fixed (big changes, please test)
• 4 – Fixed bugs with older WP releases (now WP-o-Matic works with any version starting from 2.2). Now rewrite works with PHP4.
• 5 – str_ireplace bug fixed, allow comments bug fixed, now user can choose comments state.
• 6 – {content} not getting rewritten fixed, titles and other settings not being stored fixed.