Title: [Plugin: Sociable] LIKE counter count
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Sociable] LIKE counter count

 *  [fgrondon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fgrondon/)
 * (@fgrondon)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/)
 * I installed a new site cache plugin and the count for all my facebook LIKEs was
   reset to 0. What can I do to try to reconstruct what I had before for everyone
   of my posts? Is there a certain file I can modify?
 * frankrondon.com
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/)

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 *  Thread Starter [fgrondon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fgrondon/)
 * (@fgrondon)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2444713)
 * Maybe this happened after I installed WP Super Cache or after I updated to WordPress
   3.3. I am not sure. But what I need to do is to set the LIKE counter on certain
   posts to a specific number in order to pick it up where we left it.
 * How can this be done?
 *  Thread Starter [fgrondon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fgrondon/)
 * (@fgrondon)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2444721)
 * you can see my site at [frankrondon.com](http://frankrondon.com)
 *  Thread Starter [fgrondon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fgrondon/)
 * (@fgrondon)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2444735)
 * somehow it had something to do with the fact that I had change the permalink 
   structure in order to enable WP Super Cache. Now, I changed it back to what it
   was before and everything looks the way it should be.
 *  [NosCoffin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noscoffin/)
 * (@noscoffin)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2444772)
 * Yes, the LIKES count come from the original URL that was sent to Twitter or Facebook
   when the post was first tweeted, liked or published.
 * So, if the URL [http://www.site.com/category/post1/](http://www.site.com/category/post1/)
   is changed to [http://www.site.com/newcategory/post1/](http://www.site.com/newcategory/post1/),
   the numbers will change, as the URL call to Facebook and Twitter is now different.
 *  Plugin Contributor [sociable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sociable/)
 * (@sociable)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2444862)
 * thanks NosCoffin, this is the answer
 *  [smoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smoo/)
 * (@smoo)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2445027)
 * I had the same problem, except the tweet & like buttons were on the homepage 
   of my site, the address of which hasn’t changed, obviously.
    When I first installed
   Sociable, both tweets and likes were in double figures, but when I upgraded the
   sociable plugin they went to 0 and have remained there ever since.. Any further
   suggestions gratefully received.
 *  [NosCoffin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noscoffin/)
 * (@noscoffin)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2445028)
 * smoo,
 * Did you have change the permalink structure on your site in the interim before
   you upgraded? And especially the home page? For example, do you use a special
   URL or page for the home page, such as “Home” for page and home.php to call it?
   By default, WP will use index.php to generate the home page, but some themes 
   use home.php to do so.
 * Also, how long ago did you upgrade Sociable? Sometimes, it might take a day or
   two for the numbers to regenerate via Facebook and Twitter.
 *  [smoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smoo/)
 * (@smoo)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2445029)
 * Hi NosCoffin, thanks very much for your swift response;
 * so no, I haven’t changed any of the things you mentioned.
    I did add an ID to
   a div in the sociable core file (liketweet) and changed the CSS to make the 3
   buttons that I wanted line up better, but I did this before the upgrade and it
   worked fine at the time, just lost the numbers after upgrading.
 * Have a look: [http://www.palaceofstories.com/](http://www.palaceofstories.com/)
   
   It’s possible no-one’s liked it since, but the monthly podcasts appear to be 
   gathering likes and tweets ([http://www.palaceofstories.com/free-podcast/](http://www.palaceofstories.com/free-podcast/))
   so it is working, just not picking up the previous ones.
 *  [smoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smoo/)
 * (@smoo)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2445030)
 * Oh, and I upgraded sociable in January 2012.
    Am scared to upgrade it again now!
 *  [NosCoffin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noscoffin/)
 * (@noscoffin)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sociable-like-counter-count/#post-2445031)
 * I just did a Facebook like on the home page and it picked it up fine, so new 
   clicks are being picked up, as you mentioned.
 * If the URLs themselves have not been changed either before or after you upgraded,
   then I am not sure what the issue is. The only thing I can think of is that you
   might have some posts under more than one category and that the new upgrade is
   picking up one of the two categories in the URL that the post was not originally
   submitted to.
 * I had this issue with a client site of mine, after upgrading. It had originally
   posted stories to Category X, but the new upgrade was then submitting them to
   Category Y and I had install a new plugin that let her manually tell which category
   should be the one WordPress used as the default.
 * I would suggest submitting this issue to the Sociable support page. I myself 
   have nothing to do with this plugin, but have offered support to some people 
   as I have worked with it a fair amount of the past two years.

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