How to Display Number of Facebook Fans in WordPress

Are you looking for a way to display number of your Facebook fans in WordPress? While there’s probably a plugin for this, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to display number of Facebook fans in WordPress.

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

<?php
$page_id = "YOUR PAGE-ID";
$xml = @simplexml_load_file("http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.fql.query&query=SELECT%20fan_count%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20page_id=".$page_id."") or die ("a lot");
$fans = $xml->page->fan_count;
echo $fans;
?>

Replace "YOUR PAGE-ID" with your own Facebook Page-ID in the above code.

Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.

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