Most bloggers use feedburner for their feed subscription management because its a free service where your readers can subscribe to your blog using multiple readers and get the latest updates.

Feedburner offers you with different Feedcount styles which are generally very small in the size of 88px x 26px size and you can define the body & text colours of these chiklets.

Example -

FeedCount is another cool way to promote your feed. It is a dynamic graphic that always displays your feed’s current circulation, as calculated by FeedBurner. Choose its color scheme and an animated or static appearance; it is yours to customize! You can regenerate the FeedCount chicklet as many times as you would like. When you are done, copy the HTML provided and paste it into your own page templates. You can always come back to this page to change it later.

Instead of using the above version, i was looking for a text version which would look something new , because users would have been already addicted to these older chicklets. You can now show your feed readers count in text format which would give it a extremely new look and with the use of CSS editing you can show in different styles and colours.

Plugin for this Text Based Feed Chicklet

Download and upload the plugin to your wp-content>plugins> folder and activate it. Once you activate this plugin under your settings tab you will find a new tab called – ‘Feed Count’ , click on this link.

Once you set up the options like your feedburner ID & URL, the plugin will start working. In order to display the feedcount anywhere in your theme ie sidebar or header you need to add the following code in the template files.

<?php if (function_exists(’fc_feedcount’)) fc_feedcount(); ?>

Thats it, now your feed readers count will be displayed in a new fashion and if you want to add some styles you can do it using CSS changes.