Get total share counts of a Wordpress post and cache with transient.

sharedcounts.php

function aesop_share_count(){

		$post_id = get_the_ID();

        //$url = 'http://nickhaskins.co'; // this one used for testing to return a working result

        $url = get_permalink();

        $apiurl = sprintf('http://api.sharedcount.com/?url=%s',$url);

        $transientKey = 'AesopShareCounts'. (int) $post_id;

        $cached = get_transient($transientKey);

        if (false !== $cached) {
            return $cached;
        }

        $fetch = wp_remote_get($apiurl, array('sslverify'=>false));
        $remote = wp_remote_retrieve_body($fetch);

        if( !is_wp_error( $remote ) ) {
            $count = json_decode( $remote,true);
        }

        $twitter     = $count['Twitter'];
        $fb_like    = $count['Facebook']['like_count'];

        $total = $fb_like + $twitter;
        $out = sprintf('%s',$total);

       	set_transient($transientKey, $out, 600);

        return $out;
}