Transfer Social Media shares and likes to new blog?

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  ggnitaly84 · Member · Jul 19, 2014 at 1:49 pm

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  Hello! I just moved my wordpress.com blog to org (kept my domain on .com for now) and I noticed that my social media shares and likes all disappeared?! Is there a way to transfer them or are they lost forever :(

  thank you!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 19, 2014 at 2:25 pm

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  Likes cannot be transferred but I don’t know about shares. I’ll tag this thread for a Staff response. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  ggnitaly84 · Member · Jul 19, 2014 at 5:19 pm

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  Thank you for the quick response, it should be something that wordpress.com could consider working on.. it’s quite a bit deal to have those likes etc disappear if someone wants to move platforms..

  thanks again for your answer!

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  druesome · Staff · Jul 21, 2014 at 1:54 pm

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  Hello there!

  It is possible to keep your social media shares intact after a transfer to a WordPress.org blog by making sure that the permalink structure on the new blog stays the same. I can see that the permalinks on your WordPress.org blog is a bit different from when it was hosted on WordPress.com:

  http://girlinflorence.com/2014/07/palazzo-belfiore-oltrarno-at-your-doorstep/

  On WordPress.com, it was:

  Palazzo Belfiore – Oltrarno At Your Doorstep

  If you notice, the WordPress.com permalink includes the day (09) part of the post’s publish date. To get your social media share numbers back, I would go to Settings -> Permalinks on your new blog’s admin panel:

  http://girlinflorence.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php

  Look under “Common Settings”, and choose the “Day and name” permalink structure and click “Save Changes”. Your social media shares and likes should come back right after.

  Please let me know if that works. Thanks and good luck!

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  ggnitaly84 · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 2:21 pm

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  Hello thank you for your quick response, I went in and changed the settings and I notice for that some posts it works ( like this more than under the tuscan sun post but then for others like like this one (which has 1000+ likes) it didn’t :( A Guide to Romantic Lisbon

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  druesome · Staff · Jul 22, 2014 at 5:01 pm

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  Hey there,

  Glad to hear it worked! However, I’m not sure why it didn’t for that particular post. If I view its share stats on Facebook:

  http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=girlinflorence.com/2014/03/19/a-guide-to-romantic-lisbon-portugal

  It shows that it has 1329 total shares, likes and comments combined.

  As the problem is beyond the scope of WordPress.com, I would ask about this at Facebook’s Community Help Forum:

  https://www.facebook.com/help/community

  Or at the WordPress.org support forums:

  http://www.wordpress.org/support/

  Good luck and best wishes!