Here is a solution that uses genericons. The original code was derived from this question I asked, and answered by toscho, so credit goes to him for the original code that lead to the code in this answer. Check it out here First, download and intall the genericon pack in your theme. Enqueue the genericon … Read more
Several options: Out-of-the-box plugin If you’re using Yoast WordPress SEO, you have a built-in setting for Facebook images. Under your SEO > Social menu, go to the Facebook tab and select an image under “Frontpage settings.” You can also set an image as a fallback, for posts that have no featured image, under “Default settings.” … Read more
Yes, social counts are a great use case for using transients. Aside from the slow page loading, as you mentioned, this will also help prevent you from blowing through API limits if the external requests are being made on every page load. Let’s say you have it set to cache for 30 minutes and the … Read more