media share numbers
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The number of shares on my media share buttons are not being displayed.
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Hi Esther,
Currently, your sharing buttons are not being displayed on your Media pages. To change this, navigate to your Sharing settings here:
https://tracibuxton.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=sharing
Under “Show buttons on”, make sure “Media” is checked. Once you save those changes, the buttons should begin showing!
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Hi Esther,
So, it looks like sharing buttons are displaying correctly on your Media attachment pages like this one:
http://estherhizsa.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/a-retreat-with-god/kathrin-burleson/
However, they aren’t displaying on attachment pages like this:
The reason for this is that the sharing buttons on attachment pages are controlled by the page they’re attached to. Since the second image above is attached to a post that is not yet published (scheduled), the sharing buttons will not appear until the post is published. Does that make sense?
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Yes, but that wasn’t the problem. The share icons were always showing on published posts but not the number of shares for each one (eg. FB, Twitter, etc).
They seem to be working now however. Over the past two weeks they work one day on all published posts and not the next and I didn’t change a thing. -
Hi Esther,
I understand. The sharing numbers are actually pulled from the individual networks. So, when I visit an article on your site, the sharing buttons ping the individual networks and “ask” how many times they’ve seen that post URL. Occasionally, this “link” is interrupted or goes down resulting in sharing numbers not being displayed. However, they aren’t lost. The sharing numbers look like they’re in place now. If you notice them missing again, please let me know!
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