Within a function or method, the return statement immediately stops the execution of the earlier. Hence the last line never gets interpreted. Switch the order of this: return $social_score; update_post_meta($post_id, ‘_social_score’, $social_score); to this: update_post_meta($post_id, ‘_social_score’, $social_score); return $social_score; Update: You are using three different variables for the post id, namely: $post_ID, $post_id and $post->ID. … Read more
From your comments, it seems you want to replace the post preview on facebook. This could be hard, because you try to modify the behavior of another webpage. With the opengraph protocol it can be done. add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘get_facebook_meta_tags’, 10, 0 ); function get_facebook_meta_tags() { global $post; // bail if the post is not in … Read more
You are probably using this code in your theme’s header.php. When this file is loaded $post is not available yet (it’ll be inside the Loop). So you’d need to declare before anything global $post;. But that’s not the best approach. If you swap themes, what? Do it again? See: Where to put my code: plugin … Read more
I had to change the plugin file to make it work. I think it can help someone and even the plugin’s author should consider making these changes. on class-admin.php, create this function at the beggining (can be line 9): function loadXmlByCurl($url){ $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $xml = … Read more
Facebook caches shared links. Maybe you/someone else tried sharing the site when it was still under development and it hasn’t been updated on Facebook since. Try this: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
I imagine this is because php_curl extension hasn’t been enabled in wamp. You can try to enable curl and then restart wamp. If you have a tray icon for wamp you can left click on the tray icon, choose PHP -> PHP Extensions and enable php_curl. Then left click the icon again and this time … Read more
It think that your problem is the you are passing the post ID as url parameter to facebook API: $url = get_the_ID(); Also, as get_posts return an array of post objects, you could use this code: $posts = get_posts(array(‘numberposts’ => -1) ); foreach($posts as $post) { $url = get_permalink( $post->ID ); $fbcount = json_decode( file_get_contents( … Read more
I’ve actually made a plugin called Social Metrics Tracker which does exactly what you are trying to achieve. Please also feel free to read the source code on GitHub. To answer your questions: You are right that running an hourly cron task to update all of the posts would cause a problem with even just … Read more
You need to 301 redirect the old URLs. This can be done by using Custom Permalinks plugin which automatically updates the 301 version of the URL and thus helping the Facebook plugin to recognise and restore the likes and comments.
You need to add position: absolute to your Facebook button. Header.php <div class=”logo”> <a class=”logoimga” title=”Gelnagels Gina” href=”http://www.gelnagels-gina.be/”> <img src=”http://www.gelnagels-gina.be/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Gina4.png”> </a> <a class=”header-img-1″ title=”Facebook-header” href=”#”> <img src=”http://www.gelnagels-gina.be/wp-content/themes/optimizer/facebook.png”> </a> </div> CSS .header-img-1 { left: 15%; position: absolute; top: 50px; }