Title: Switched to https, lost likes
Last modified: August 30, 2016
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# Switched to https, lost likes
* Resolved [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/)
* I’m using jetpack for facebook likes etc. I just switched to https and all the
likes seemed to get reset. Any thoughts on how to get them back?
* Thanks,
Sam
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/)
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* Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
* (@jeherve)
* Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793772)
* Could you make sure the HTTP version of your posts redirects to HTTPS? Once you
have a redirect in place, Facebook should follow it to get to the right post.
* You can check what Facebook sees for a specific post thanks to the debugger:
[https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/)
* It will also display sharing counts if there are any.
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793774)
* All HTTP direct to HTTPS and facebook sees this. Its OK though, don’t mind losing
the likes. Just thought I’d see if you had any quick solutions.
* The bigger problem is how I have to fetch new scrape every time I post so that
facebook pics up my images. I might have to contact facebook about that one…
* Thanks for all your help Jeremy,
Sam
* Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
* (@jeherve)
* Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793787)
* > All HTTP direct to HTTPS and facebook sees this. Its OK though, don’t mind
> losing the likes. Just thought I’d see if you had any quick solutions.
* I’m afraid I don’t have any other solutions. Facebook is usually able to follow
redirections and grab likes from the original post. It might be worth bringing
this up to Facebook as well.
* > The bigger problem is how I have to fetch new scrape every time I post so that
> facebook pics up my images
* That seems like an issue indeed. Does Facebook’s Debugger provide you with any
useful information as to why this may be happening?
* If the debugger doesn’t help, you might indeed have to open a bug report:
[https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/](https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/)
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793797)
* Hi Jeremy,
* I reported the bug with facebook and at the bottom of this message is their response.
I’m not sure what to do with it, perhaps you will know.
* You [previously said](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-troubles-with-facebook-publicize?replies=10)
Yoast is a good option because of the ability to add the tags: fb:admins and
fb:app_id. I don’t remember setting these anywhere, but perhaps Yoast just does
it and that’s why you suggested it?
* Now facebook says I have to set og:width and og:height add .
* How do I do all this and should I be using Yoast or Jetpack to do it? Quite over
my head here and appreciate the help.
* Thanks,
Sam
* Facebook bug report response:
Hi Tall, for the images not appearing, what you
can do is set the og:width and og:height on your page, this way our crawler will
pick it up right away, as mentioned here:
* [https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/optimizing](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/optimizing)
* As per the issue with your likes, this is expected, and the way to fix it is
to have the og:url point to the OLD url you were using, which has all your likes.
* For example, if you were using HTTP, and just recently moved to HTTPS, you have
to add:
*
* This will show you all your likes once again.
* Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
* (@jeherve)
* Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793811)
* > I don’t remember setting these anywhere, but perhaps Yoast just does it and
> that’s why you suggested it?
* Yoast does it indeed, you can set these up under SEO > Social > Facebook.
* > Now facebook says I have to set og:width and og:height
* I’m not sure Yoast does that. Jetpack’s Open Graph Meta tags include that information
though.
* > As per the issue with your likes, this is expected, and the way to fix it is
> to have the og:url point to the OLD url you were using, which has all your
> likes.
> For example, if you were using HTTP, and just recently moved to HTTPS, you
> have to add:
> content=”[http://www.myoldwebsite.com/”](http://www.myoldwebsite.com/”);/
> >
* That makes sense, I understand now. The redirects I mentioned earlier won’t work,
because it’s a redirect from the old site to the new one, and there are no likes
on the new site yet.
* Changing your site’s `og:url` values would work in bringing your Likes back,
but it also means that all new likes will be attached to the old URL, and not
the new one. You’d be stuck with attaching all likes to the old site URL forever
if you want to keep the Likes.
* I’m not sure I’d recommend it.
* If you’d like to make that changes anyway, you’ll need to develop your own Open
Graph Meta Tags, or edit Yoast or Jetpack’s existing tags, as neither of the
plugins offer options to specify a different site URL in their settings.
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793812)
* Hi Jeremy,
* Its a young site anyway, don’t mind loosing the likes.
* As far as og:width and og:height, I’m guessing Yoast doesn’t set these as otherwise
the facebook guys would have said this was the problem.
* So while Yoast doesn’t do that, Jetpack doesn’t do fb:admins and fb:app_id.
* But if I’m understanding correctly, I need both of these in order to not have
to manually fetch new scrape every post. Feel like I must be missing something…
* Are other Jetpack users having the same problem? I would much rather solve this
problem with Jetpack than Yoast as they haven’t replied to my requests for support…
Much unlike yourself, thank you.
* Sam
* Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
* (@jeherve)
* Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793813)
* > But if I’m understanding correctly, I need both of these in order to not have
> to manually fetch new scrape every post. Feel like I must be missing something…
* It’s actually only a warning, Facebook doesn’t require `fb:admins` and `fb:app_id`
yet. It only recommends it.
* If you’d like to use Jetpack’s Open Graph Meta Tags, but also have these 2 tags
as well, you can add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file, or
in a [functionality plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/):
* ```
function jeherve_custom_app_admin_og( $tags ) {
// Admin tag.
// You can find your own ID here: http://findmyfbid.com/
$tags['fb:admins'] = 'YOUR_ADMIN_ID';
// App ID tag.
// That's only necessary if you have a developer account and already created an app.
// Find your APP ID here: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
$tags['fb:app_id'] = 'YOUR_APP_ID';
return $tags;
}
add_filter( 'jetpack_open_graph_tags', 'jeherve_custom_app_admin_og' );
```
* That will add these 2 custom tags at the end of your existing Jetpack Open Graph
Meta Tags.
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793814)
* OK, I’ve added that and switched Facebook off in Yoast’s SEO, I’ll let you know
how it goes next time I post, thanks!
* Sam
* Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
* (@jeherve)
* Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793815)
* The tags are displayed properly, it seems:
[http://i.wpne.ws/e0BB](http://i.wpne.ws/e0BB)
* Facebook doesn’t complain at the moment:
[https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftall.life%2Fraised-kitchen-sink-alternative-for-tall-people-the-stool%2F](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftall.life%2Fraised-kitchen-sink-alternative-for-tall-people-the-stool%2F)
* So it looks like you may be all set!
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switched-to-https-lost-likes/#post-6793830)
* Hi Jeremy,
* Just thought I’d let you know it is working great.
* Thanks for all your help,
Sam
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