I had this same problem of no social counter working until I upgraded all my plugins (except visual composer). Although I haven’t upgraded Newspaper 7 since July 2016 and I haven’t upgraded to WordPress 4.7 social counter now works.

Thanks for looking into it – I have emailed details but I can send more information if you need it.

Thanks Catalin – I’d like to keep the site identity private if this is ok so I will send an email now with this thread title in the subject.

I am having the same problem – I think a typo: latest Visual Composer is 4.11.2 ?

Thanks ok – but I can go from 4 to 7 as long as I run the updater script?

Thank you – worked perfectly!

Thanks Bogdan – I was hoping this was enough, I need to send you a login and password for you to see the page, I will send an email with your name and ‘coupon’ in the subject line. I hope this works.

Thanks Catalin – I will send an email with london789 in the subject line.

Thanks Bogdan

I want to upgrade to v.6 – is there a way I can preserve the existing widgets and sidebars (about 5 widgets each different in around 40 sidebars) or at least reduce the workload?

Hi

I can’t upgrade to the latest theme as I would have to create too many new custom sidebars (40-50).
Will the new social counter work with Newspaper Version: 444 ?

Brilliant – thanks! it worked

I tried the new social counter in Newspaper 4, crashed the site, no problem I deleted the plugin and have found an older version of the plugin which works for Twitter anyway, the others show zero, but at least site is online.

The problem now is I can’t seem to add media/posts or deactivate plugins. The errors I get on the WP dashboard:

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/en/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 627″

(XXXXXX = site ref so am hiding it here) Also I see:

Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in /home/XXXXXX/public_html/en/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/class-wpseo-utils.php on line 608

– I have the site backed up and I am prepared to do the upgrade to v. 6 but part of the instructions are to deactivate plugins which I cannot seem to do.

Shall I go to FTP and delete plugins there, and do the upgrade?

Do I have to upgrade v.6 to use this new Social Counter?

In same situation – also with Facebook fan numbers showing zero.

I have over 100 customised sidebars each with different plugins – if I upgrade to v.6 will I have to rebuild all of this?

Thanks Alin – I deactivated then re-added one by one all the plugins, the troublemaker was ‘MaxButtons’ so now everything is fine.

Thanks for your help.

Yes you can go to Theme Panel > ‘Translations’ and find the Similar Articles text and change it to what you want.

…also looks like it isn’t letting me save post tags.

Thanks – works perfectly

Thanks – I used this and it does remove the ‘1 Page of 6’ but I also want to remove all trace of page numbers at the bottom of the page, including ‘< Prev’ and ‘Next >’

Is this possible>

Hi Lucian

Sorry a bit late getting back to you – I did try at the time, it didn’t work, I went back to it today having updated to 4.6.1 but still no success.

What I am trying to do is have only a san serif Helvetica / Arial (I have more fonts than this named in my css) .

PS I have not yet updated to the latest version as it seems there are a few bugs?

Thanks – that works fine, the ‘important’ bits made the difference. Can you help with CSS to 1. make the button text in the button become underlined on hover
2. make the button text show as a link colour also on hover

This is as far as I got with the underline part but it’s not working:

.widget_social .td_social_type .td_social_button a hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

thanks!

Thanks but the problem is this does not change the background colour of the social counter buttons for me. The text goes black but the grey background remains.

.td_social_type .td_social_button a {
background-color: #fff;
color: #000;
}

If I change the theme accent colour to white the next problem is that the selected menu highlighter will not show against my website’s white background as it will now be white too.

Thanks that was quick – the background is still grey though – should I just use the theme accent colour to change the background to white?