Title: Button Counter Stats Don't Show After Converting To HTTPS
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Button Counter Stats Don't Show After Converting To HTTPS

 *  Resolved [_Entrepreneur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/_entrepreneur/)
 * (@_entrepreneur)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-counter-stats-dont-show-after-converting-to-https/)
 * We recently converted our whole site to displaying using HTTPS. Once this was
   done all social sharing buttons went back to zero. New articles posted after 
   the switch show the stats fine but old article posted before this time have the
   zero counts. We have 1,000+ articles that were affected.
 * Based on what I can see from sharedcount.com, the data isn’t gone it is just 
   tied to the http version of the post instead of the https version.
 * Example URL: [https://www.calvertbeacon.com/ccso-retires-two-long-time-employees](https://www.calvertbeacon.com/ccso-retires-two-long-time-employees)(
   HTTPS counters show zero)
 * Shared Count HTTP (100s of likes/shares): [http://www.sharedcount.com/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.calvertbeacon.com%2Fccso-retires-two-long-time-employees%2F](http://www.sharedcount.com/#url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.calvertbeacon.com%2Fccso-retires-two-long-time-employees%2F)
 * Shared Count HTTPS: [http://www.sharedcount.com/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.calvertbeacon.com%2Fccso-retires-two-long-time-employees%2F](http://www.sharedcount.com/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.calvertbeacon.com%2Fccso-retires-two-long-time-employees%2F)
 * Is there a way to migrate the http data to https or have the plugin pull both
   sets of data? Or, maybe another solution I haven’t thought of?
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-share/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-share/)

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 *  [Nick C](https://wordpress.org/support/users/modernnerd/)
 * (@modernnerd)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-counter-stats-dont-show-after-converting-to-https/#post-6411904)
 * Hi, _Entrepreneur!
 * Sorry to hear about your counts being reset. Unfortunately, social networks record
   likes and shares against the full URL. If any portion of the URL changes – the
   protocol, subdomain, domain, or path – then that’s seen as a unique URL that 
   has a different share count to your original one.
 * Changing from HTTP to HTTPS will reset your post counts, because networks see`
   https://example.com/your-post/` as a different URL to `http://example.com/your-
   post/`. At this time, there’s no way to force networks to treat the two URLs 
   as the same resource – they don’t take redirects or canonical tags into account,
   for example.
 * Our development team is exploring ways to work around this (see [https://github.com/copyblogger/genesis-simple-share/issues/54](https://github.com/copyblogger/genesis-simple-share/issues/54)),
   but I’m afraid I don’t have a quick workaround I can offer at this time – sorry
   for the trouble!
 *  Thread Starter [_Entrepreneur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/_entrepreneur/)
 * (@_entrepreneur)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-counter-stats-dont-show-after-converting-to-https/#post-6411912)
 * Thanks for the info. I found the site below about how to possibly modify the 
   plugin but this really only forces http or vice versa to be used but ultimtelay
   it doesn’t sync them up so that the count is correct no matter which url is passed.
 * [http://www.mightyminnow.com/2014/05/how-to-make-social-media-shares-counts-and-comments-work-across-http-and-https/](http://www.mightyminnow.com/2014/05/how-to-make-social-media-shares-counts-and-comments-work-across-http-and-https/)

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