WordPress function to show a total share counter (FB, Twitter, G+)

WordPress function to show a total share counter (FB, Twitter, G+)

Sharedcount.com is a useful website which allow you to get the total likes, shares, tweets, etc for a specific web page. Here’s a super handy function to display how many times a page has been liked/shared/tweeted on your blog.

Simply paste the following function where you want your counter to appear:

function social_shares() {
    $url = get_permalink( $post_id ); 
    $json = file_get_contents(&quot;http://api.sharedcount.com/?url=" .
rawurlencode($url));
    $counts = json_decode($json, true);
    $totalcounts= $counts[&quot;Twitter&quot;] + 
$counts[&quot;Facebook&quot;][&quot;total_count&quot;] +
$counts[&quot;GooglePlusOne&quot;];
    echo &quot;&lt;div&gt;$totalcounts Share&lt;/div&gt;&quot;;
}

Thanks a lot to Davide for submitting this tip!