Title: Switch site from http to https – Lost Social Votes
Last modified: April 26, 2018

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# Switch site from http to https – Lost Social Votes

 *  Resolved [gojiberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gojiberry/)
 * (@gojiberry)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switch-site-from-http-to-https-lost-social-votes/)
 * I recently updated my site from [http://www](http://www). to [https://www](https://www).
 * However, now all my social votes are gone. I have been reading about this online,
   but there are no step by step instructions on what to do.
 * My social votes display at the top of my pages/posts, not in the sidebar.
 * The best I found was this:
    [http://www.addthis.com/academy/http-https-share-counts-affected/](http://www.addthis.com/academy/http-https-share-counts-affected/)
   [https://www.mightyminnow.com/2014/05/how-to-make-social-media-shares-counts-and-comments-work-across-http-and-https/](https://www.mightyminnow.com/2014/05/how-to-make-social-media-shares-counts-and-comments-work-across-http-and-https/)
 * Can you please tell me step by step what to do. Thanks

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Leland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/addthisleland/)
 * (@addthisleland)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switch-site-from-http-to-https-lost-social-votes/#post-10221858)
 * Hi there!
 * Thanks for contacting AddThis Support 🙂
 * The sad news is that as soon as you change your URL, permalink or add an SSL 
   certificate to your site, your share counts reset. 
 * The reason for this is because of the way social networks track these counts –
   they’re tracking them against a specific URL and currently, there’s no way for
   these social services API’s to have you tell them “this old URL is now this new
   URL and you should add the share counts to this new one instead.”
 * Apologies for the inconvenience but this is how these social networks handle 
   share counts and there’s not much we can do unless you revert back to the original
   URL.
 * We’re actually currently researching on a workaround to this problem so stay 
   tune!
 * Thanks,
    Leland
 *  Thread Starter [gojiberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gojiberry/)
 * (@gojiberry)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switch-site-from-http-to-https-lost-social-votes/#post-10222064)
 * Hi Leland,
 * Thanks for getting back to me.
 * AddThis suggested a solution here (link below) but all the steps are not included:
   
   [http://www.addthis.com/academy/http-https-share-counts-affected/](http://www.addthis.com/academy/http-https-share-counts-affected/)
 * Any ideas how I can add this code for my inline share buttons?
 * Also, the second link in my post (link below) offered a solution, but I wasn’t
   able to implement it as all the steps were not outlined. It shows how to do it
   with Addthis for a Text Widget, but not for inline AddThis share buttons.
 * [https://www.mightyminnow.com/2014/05/how-to-make-social-media-shares-counts-and-comments-work-across-http-and-https/](https://www.mightyminnow.com/2014/05/how-to-make-social-media-shares-counts-and-comments-work-across-http-and-https/)
 * Let me know what you think. Thanks
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [gojiberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gojiberry/).

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