Wordpress Social Button Plugins Change
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Hi Guys,
I'm thinking of changing the plugin I used on my blog for people to share my blog posts on Facebook, Twitter and Google +. If I do this, would I lose all shares (meaning that all the buttons would go back to 0, I know the shared content would still appear on people's profiles)?
Thanks,
Carlos
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Ha, nice, always useful to have an old banger for these types of things. Cheers!
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Thanks Marcus, I actually tested it on a blog that I don't really care much for and it all worked fine.
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Nope, shares will remain, they are pulled from the networks themselves and are not relevant to the plugin or buttons.
To test and put your mind at ease either install another plugin and publish to another widget or grab some code for a button and drop it somewhere else on a specific page with likes / tweets etc.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons
A nice easy one for Friday.
Hope that helps!
Marcus
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