Post Share Count

Installation and using the plugin

1. Upload post-share-count.zip and extract to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Place <?php the_post_share_count(); ?> in your templates

How to add html wrapper or some css class to counter?

Function the_post_share_count support $before and $after arguments, same as the_title

<?php the_post_share_count( '<span class="twitter-share-link">', '</span>' ); ?>

How to display counter as link?

Use $before and $after arguments, here is example with using twitter api:

<?php the_post_share_count( '<span class="twitter-share-link"><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=' . urlencode(get_the_title()) . '&url=' . urlencode(get_permalink()) . '" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">', '</a></span>' ); ?>

How to add beautiful image to share link with counter?

Use CSS background-image property for it. Or if you are using twentythirteen child theme put code in previous example to you template file into the mail loop and add this code to your style.css:

@import url("../twentythirteen/style.css");

.twitter-share-link a:before {
    content: '\f202'; /* twitter icon code in the Genericons icon font */
    display: inline-block; 
    font: 16px/1 Genericons;
    vertical-align: text-bottom;
}