Title: will this plugin bring my facebook likes to https?
Last modified: August 30, 2016
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# will this plugin bring my facebook likes to https?
* Resolved [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/)
* I just got a ssl certificate and noticed my https urls have no facebook likes.
Can this plugin help with that?
* Thanks,
Sam
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/)
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* Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
* (@rogierlankhorst)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793152)
* There’s been a case where Google analytics only started registering hits on the
new website after a redirect was set to https, which this plugin does. If the
same applies to Facebook, you can fix it by installing this plugin. If you have
a fix, please share it here.
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793162)
* Hi Rogier,
* Is there anything else I need to get my site running on SSL besides installing
your plugin, or does your plugin take care of it all?
* For instance, right now when I create a new posts, it gets a http permalink,
but I think I should be creating everything with https, right?
* Thanks,
Sam
* Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
* (@rogierlankhorst)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793178)
* If you install Really Simple SSL, that will be taken care of. Your new links
will be https, and all your existing links will be changed to https dynamically.
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793179)
* I tried installing it but get a server error 500.
* What do you think has gone wrong?
* Thanks,
Sam
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793181)
* I found the problem, I hadn’t told wordpress that my new url was https (wordpress
wouldn’t let me). But now I changed that in my wp_config file like this:
* define(‘WP_HOME’,’[https://tall.life’](https://tall.life’););
define(‘
WP_SITEURL’,’[https://tall.life’](https://tall.life’););
* And your plugin works now, very nice.
* One thing I’m noticing is that I get a green lock sign in the address bar for
pages on my site, but not for the home page: [https://tall.life](https://tall.life).
Similarly, it doesn’t show up when I first go onto my admin, but then when I
add a new post, for example, it does show up.
* Any suggestions?
* Thanks,
Sam
* Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
* (@rogierlankhorst)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793185)
* Normally the plugin would handle your siteurl, but perhaps wasn’t able to change
it due to permissions.
* As for your green lock, on your homepage you have used an image from another
domain:
* [http://www.freetravelwebsitetemplates.com/images/shim_wordpress-org.gif](http://www.freetravelwebsitetemplates.com/images/shim_wordpress-org.gif)
* Upload it to your own site, and the url can go over ssl. Then you will have your
green lock.
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793190)
* I see the error in chrome debugger. I can’t figure out where that image is getting
added though or why it is only a problem on the home page. I tried a static landing
page and still didn’t help… Must have something to do with my theme, travel blogger.
Any clue how I can figure out where this image is coming from?
* What about when I first go to my admin page? No green lock, but then when I go
to another page in my admin, I get the green lock. Thoughts?
* I did loose my facebook likes by the way, if you have any thoughts on how to
get these back, please let me know.
* A very helpful plugin you’ve create, thanks!
Sam
* Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
* (@rogierlankhorst)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793232)
* I expect it is a setting somewhere in your theme. If you need troubleshooting
services, please contact me directly on my website.
* Thread Starter [TallSam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallsam/)
* (@tallsam)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793258)
* Hi Rogier,
* It was my theme style sheet that was calling on that image, and when I stopped
that, I now get the green lock, how satisfying 🙂
* As far as the facebook likes lost, do you have any thoughts on this? I guess
it’s because it is a different url, but I would have thought this problem would
be common and thus there be a common solution…
* On a side note, I have tried to save such kind folk as yourself time by searching
to see if my question has already been answered, but I can’t seem to figure out
how to search one specific plugins support rather than support for all plugins.
Got the feeling I am missing something obvious… Any suggestions?
* Thanks,
Sam
* Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
* (@rogierlankhorst)
* [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793261)
* Great you fixed the url.
* I don’t have any insights on the Facebook link issue, maybe Facebook has to change
the way it views http/https urls to be able to keep likes.
* [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelhpdx/)
* (@michaelhpdx)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793418)
* I have the same issue with FB Likes. Previously, FB likes for pages came from
[http://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/?output_format=md){
url} on my site; now the plugin converts all of these references to http
- s
* ://{url} automatically. Normally that would be cool, but some of my pages have
thousands of likes, and they are (in effect) being reset to zero. Not good.
* Is there a way to exclude the rewriting for specific lines that include certain
references? I know that may sound odd, but for any previously “liked” FB references
that were originally http, FB is going to treat the new https: address as different.
* For example, this iframe reference using the FB plugin like was coded originally
as:
``
* But is now:
``
* Top one shows > 900 likes, bottom one is zero. :-(.
* I don’t want to hack the code myself, but this is going to be a big issue for
anyone moving their site to this plugin and losing all of the FB like count (
which really matters to some customer bases) for their pages that were previously
http:. And no, FB isn’t going to fix this (nor do they have any kind of support
to ignore the http/https on a link address).
* Thanks for any suggestions.
Michael
* [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelhpdx/)
* (@michaelhpdx)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793419)
* Okay, after looking into this for a bit, I’ve implemented a fix that ensures
my fblike links point to the original http: URL which Facebook has been accruing
likes for.
* In class-front-end.php, I added the following code just after line 132 (with
plugin version 2.2.12):
* ```
// temporarily fix fblike problems by moving href link back to http:
$buffer = str_replace ( "www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https:", "www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http:", $buffer );
```
* This is clearly just a hack and I wouldn’t recommend it; however, it would be
good if a configuration option could be added to the plugin to “not fix fblike
links” embedded in a page. This is a problem not unique to my situation, as I’m
sure most folks won’t want to have their FB like counts reset just because they
moved the site entirely over from http to https.
* Michael
* Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
* (@rogierlankhorst)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793420)
* Your fix would work, but I don’t want to add options, to keep the plugin fast.
* But your fix made me think of another approach: if the plugin only replaces ‘
space’href=http://domain, instead of href://domain, your Facebook url wouldn’t
be replaced. I have to think about it a bit more, but this might be a simple
fix without the need for options.
* Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
* (@rogierlankhorst)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-this-plugin-bring-my-facebook-likes-to-https/#post-6793422)
* To code this into the current version of the plugin, you could also use a filter:
* ```
function my_custom_http_urls($arr) {
//first, remove the default hyperlink from the replacement array
$remove = "http://www.your-domain.com";
if(($key = array_search($remove, $arr)) !== false) { unset($arr[$key]); }
//re-add the link, but now only for "[space]href="http://www.your-domain.com//this way, all your links will be replaced, but not the facebook one.
array_push($arr, ' href="http://www.your-domain.com', );
return $arr; }
add_filter("rlrsssl_replace_url_args","my_custom_http_urls");
```
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