We all are having the twitter account. If we want to show how much people following you on twitter then just use following code.

Open your sidebar.php file and just copy paste the following code.

First you would need to create a file twitter.php and paste the following code in there:

<?php

//This xml file will return the all user information about from twitter acctount
$xml=file_get_contents(‘http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=wordpressapi’);
if (preg_match(‘/followers_count>(.*)</’,$xml,$match)!=0) {
$twitter_follower_count['count'] = $match[1];

// this will show the twitter followers count
echo $twitter_follower_count['count'];
?>

WordPressapi is my twitter username. So you can change it your username.

Maybe you aware with apache “mod_gzip and mod deflate”

Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms

For Apache Normally use following syntax:

mod_gzip_item_exclude file \.js$
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^text/css$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.html$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.shtml$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/html$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.txt$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/plain$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.css$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/css$

We used gzip and compressing files technology with various browers. You need following browser support for this.

For Nginx i used following code in Nginx.conf file:

# Compression of response time
gzip on;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_comp_level 9;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_min_length 0;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css image/x-icon image/png image/jpg image/jpeg text/js text/php;
gzip_vary on;


Use following code for setting up Nginx for rails.

http {
include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type  application/octet-stream;</code>

log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request '
'"$status" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

# Timeouts
client_body_timeout   5;
client_header_timeout 5;
keepalive_timeout     55;
send_timeout          5;

upstream mongrel_cluster {
server 127.0.0.1:3000;
server 127.0.0.1:3001;
server 127.0.0.1:3002;
}
server {
listen       80;
server_name  localhost.localdomain;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

#for images routing
location ~* ^/(images|stylesheets|javascripts).+\.(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js)$
{
root /var/www/html/Projects/Project_Name/public;
}
# concurs with nginx's one

location  / {
proxy_pass	http://mongrel_cluster;
#Fix for host name and redirection to domain

}

}

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I am using wordpressmu 2.6.5, quite old version. Three month back i moved our site Apache to Nginx.
Nginx i am using for Rails and WordPressmu application.

I am able to run wordpressmu and Clean Urls(Pretty Url) successfully. I am using Fedora 9 as OS.
“/usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress” – This is my path where i installed WordPressmu

Here is my Nginx code:


server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost.localdomain;
# access_log logs/site.access.log;

location ~* ^.+\.(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js)$
{
root /usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress;
rewrite ^/.*(/wp-admin/.*\.(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js))$ $1 last;
rewrite ^/.*(/wp-includes/.*\.(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js))$ $1 last;
rewrite ^/.*(/wp-content/themes/.*\.(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js))$ $1 last;
rewrite ^/.*(/wp-content/.*\.(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js))$ $1 last;
rewrite ^.*/files/(.*(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js))$ /wp-content/blogs.php?file=$1 last;
expires 10d;
break;
}

location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php;

rewrite ^.*/.*/files/(.*) /wordpress/wp-content/blogs.php?file=$1;
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^.+?(/wp-.*) /wordpress$1 last;
rewrite ^.+?(/.*\.php)$ /wordpress$1 last;
rewrite ^(.+)$ /wordpress/index.php?q=$1 last;
break;
}

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;

fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
include fastcgi_params;

}

location = /50x.html {
root /var/www/nginx-default;
}

}


This code is working fine for me.