Title: Feature Request: XING Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Feature Request: XING * Resolved [Johannes Weber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johannes4711/) * (@johannes4711) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/) * Is there a chance to add the well-known German social network XING ([https://www.xing.com/](https://www.xing.com/)) to your tracker? that would be great. šŸ˜‰ * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-metrics-tracker/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-metrics-tracker/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Author [Ben Cole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcole808/) * (@bcole808) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865531) * Hi, * I would love to be able to add support for more social networks. I am not familiar with XING, but it sounds like users are probably able to share links to web pages, right? * I do see some documentation for their API here, but I donā€™t see anything that looks like it returns the number of shares a URL has: [https://dev.xing.com/docs/resources](https://dev.xing.com/docs/resources) * Can you see if you can find an API for XING which will let the plugin check to see the number of times a particular URL has been shared? * Thread Starter [Johannes Weber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johannes4711/) * (@johannes4711) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865688) * Hi Ben, hm, I do not know the details of the XING share button. It seems that they are using their own JavaScript snippet: [https://dev.xing.com/plugins/share_button/docs](https://dev.xing.com/plugins/share_button/docs) * Can this be used for your tracker, or do you need the API? I have not found something about the share counter through the API. šŸ™ * Thanks! Johannes * Plugin Author [Ben Cole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcole808/) * (@bcole808) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865703) * It does have to be a specific API which allows the plugin to make an HTTP GET request to ask it for the number of shares for a given URL. I didnā€™t see one when I looked, but if you are able to find it or if they add support for URL share counts let me know and Iā€™d be happy to add it to this plugin. * Thread Starter [Johannes Weber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johannes4711/) * (@johannes4711) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865748) * Hi Ben, * I am using another plugin on my blog to show the common ā€œshareā€ buttons under each post in a secure way: the backend retrieves the share counts and displays them in the share buttons. Plugin: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shariff/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shariff/) Demo on my blog: [http://blog.webernetz.net/2013/07/30/password-strengthentropy-characters-vs-words/](http://blog.webernetz.net/2013/07/30/password-strengthentropy-characters-vs-words/) * The original ā€œshariff-backendā€ can be found here: [https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff-backend-php](https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff-backend-php) I am not a good coder, but I think that under src -> Backend there are the ways for other social networks such as Reddit or XING to request the counters. Maybe you can use something from there? * Plugin Author [Ben Cole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcole808/) * (@bcole808) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865749) * Thanks, this looks helpful. I think I should be able to follow the example in the shariff-backend code on Github and it looks like there should be a way for me to add Xing with it. * Iā€™m not sure when Iā€™ll be able to get to this, but hopefully I can do it soon. Additionally, I want to add the ability for the site admin to enable/disable collection of stats from different social networks so I will do that feature at the same time as this one. * You can follow along with the issue on Github here if you like: * [https://github.com/chapmanu/wp-social-metrics-tracker/issues/72](https://github.com/chapmanu/wp-social-metrics-tracker/issues/72) [https://github.com/chapmanu/wp-social-metrics-tracker/issues/71](https://github.com/chapmanu/wp-social-metrics-tracker/issues/71) * Plugin Author [Ben Cole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcole808/) * (@bcole808) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865776) * Xing, Flattr, and Reddit have all now been added to this plugin as of version 1.6.0. I was able to reference the Shariff source code to see how those APIs needed to be configured. * Thread Starter [Johannes Weber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johannes4711/) * (@johannes4711) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865777) * Great, great, great!!! Thanks for your work! * (Could you color the XING section with the typical XING color? That would be even greater ;)) Here it is: rgb(0,101,103) #006567 * Plugin Author [Ben Cole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcole808/) * (@bcole808) * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865778) * Oh yes, I forgot to add the colors. Thanks for providing the color codes! * Iā€™ve added the colors and released version 1.6.1 Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ā€˜Feature Request: XINGā€™ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/social-metrics-tracker_99a19a.svg) * [Social Metrics Tracker](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-metrics-tracker/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-metrics-tracker/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-metrics-tracker/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-metrics-tracker/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-metrics-tracker/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-metrics-tracker/reviews/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Ben Cole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcole808/) * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-xing/#post-5865778) * Status: resolved