Title: Posts Social Shares Count Author: Bishoy.A Published: September 6, 2014 Last modified: November 24, 2015 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/posts-social-shares-count/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=1271352) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/posts-social-shares-count/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=1271352) # Posts Social Shares Count By [Bishoy.A](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bishoya/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/posts-social-shares-count.1.4.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-social-shares-count/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-social-shares-count/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-social-shares-count/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-social-shares-count/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/) ## Description #### About You can use this plugin to get the number of shares for a given post by ID. #### How to use To count for example how many times the post or page has been shared on Facebook use the function echo pssc_facebook() in the loop or echo pssc_facebook( $post_id) anywhere. This function will return the count integer for example 5 or 0. Or you can use the shortcode [pssc_facebook] in the post you want to count shares for or [pssc_facebook post_id=””] for a specific post by ID. #### Available Shortcodes * [pssc_facebook] * [pssc_pinterest] * [pssc_linkedin] * [pssc_delicious] * [pssc_stumble] * [pssc_gplus] * [pssc_all] #### Available Functions * pssc_facebook() * pssc_pinterest() * pssc_linkedin() * pssc_delicious() * pssc_stumble() * pssc_gplus() * pssc_all() Note that PHP functions needs to be echoed. #### Change Log * Version 1.4.1: Removed Twitter functions due Twitter’s disabling their count API. * Version 1.4.0: Fixed some bugs and added Posts Social Shares Count to edit posts/ pages/custom post types list view in admin (edit.php). * Version 1.3.1: Fixed a bug with caching. * Version 1.3: Added caching support and Added total shares count to post edit page. * Version 1.2: Fixed a bug with functions without post ID usage. * Version 1.1: Fixed a bug with pssc_all shortcode ## Screenshots * [[ * Shares count in admin edit post view * [[ * Shares count in admin edit post/pages/post types list view ## Installation 1. Go to your admin area and select Plugins -> Add new from the menu. 2. Search for \”Posts Social Shares Count\”. 3. Click install. 4. Click activate. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2e52eab6165d9ecb27103fc29ba46fa9a147467ebe9c004c36a08bfd215f1a6b? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Fix Facebook Counter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-facebook-counter/)󠁿 [ollakalla](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ollakalla/) December 16, 2016 The Problem is that facebook change the json, and you can fix the problem by edit this file wp-content/plugins/posts-social-shares-count/classes/share.count.php and go to function pssc_facebook and change the code inside it with this code $json_string = $this->file_get_contents_curl( 'https://graph.facebook.com/?id='.$this->url ); $json = json_decode( $json_string, true ); return isset( $json['share']['share_count'])? intval( $json['share']['share_count']) : 0; ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/32b1c1c83b94abe4cc11252e9c07880d473a56a5d454bd6dfc2e666cb6db2240? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[not working anymore and…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-anymore-and/)󠁿 [guenstig-kochen.at](https://profiles.wordpress.org/guenstig-kochenat/) September 26, 2016 … slows down wordpress. had to deacitvate it. nothing more to say. google+ doesn’t work, twitter doesn’t work anymore because of its api. now facebook is gone because of api 2.7. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7a6134357de9184577d89d97f847c580735aa67805a0c2dda081889dd9f67776? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Facebook is not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-is-not-working/)󠁿 [3nions](https://profiles.wordpress.org/3nions/) September 3, 2016 Facebook API is not working. Please update it to graph-api ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/67c9ab71ad6ecb932f935d0a03c5d6ecc054bdeb98397b84eb3889e82f48ac6d? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Nice useful plugin.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-useful-plugin-2/)󠁿 [Ryan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/daobydesign/) September 3, 2016 Does what it says it will do. Had a small issue with cURL under a specific server setup, but otherwise it works great! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/34236b8aa7d3687389631fd542d5c13bc0fc0d623444af680d4c6fb72791abb6? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Awesome work!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-work-52/)󠁿 [jeromeeee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeromeeee/) September 3, 2016 Was looking high and low for a total share counter with caching support, and this plugin was definitely the most helpful! [ Read all 7 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Posts Social Shares Count” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Bishoy.A ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bishoya/) [Translate “Posts Social Shares Count” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/posts-social-shares-count) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-social-shares-count/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/posts-social-shares-count/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/posts-social-shares-count/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/posts-social-shares-count/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.4.1 * Bug fixes * Disabled Twitter functions because Twitter has disabled their count API. See [this blog post](https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hard-decisions-for-a-sustainable-platform) #### 1.4.0 * Added Posts Social Shares Count to edit posts/pages/custom post types list view in admin (edit.php). * Fixed PHP notices that displayed randomly. * Fixed Issue for users with PHP safe_mode or open_basedir set on. * Fixed Issue with Pinterest count to always 0. #### 1.3.1 * Fixed a bug with caching #### 1.3 * Added Caching support * Improved performance * Added total shares count to post edit page #### 1.2 * Fixed a bug with functions without post ID usage. #### 1.1 * Fixed a bug with [pssc_all] shortcode #### 1.0 * Initial Plugin Release ## Meta * Version **1.4.1** * Last updated **10 years ago** * Active installations **400+** * WordPress version ** 2.5.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.3.34** * Tags * [count](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/count/)[facebook](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/) [shares](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shares/)[shortcodes](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcodes/) [social](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-social-shares-count/advanced/) ## Ratings 3.7 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 2 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 1 1-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-social-shares-count/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Bishoy.A ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bishoya/) ## Support Got something to say? 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