The beauty of social share buttons is that they do all the work and make it easier for everyone to share what they like.

As a reader I don’t want to have to type anything when using a twitter (or other) social sharing button. If I have to type (or even copy and paste the title), the chances are – I am not going to share the article.

As a publisher, I want to know that my shared content will look good and not spammy when shared on social media.

The problem with just having a link in the sharing space is that most people won’t bother to type anything to identify the content. Once shared, apart from looking a bit spammy, not many will click on the link by itself.

I am not sure how to put the old code back, but happy to follow a tutorial if you guys are not prepared/ not intending to add the title back.

The share count is also a big thing for me as a publisher. I want new readers to see how many times the article they read has been shared. Hopefully that will encourage them to share it too.

You guys know about the power of social media more than anyone, so why hide the share count?

My site’s been online for a while and now that I am on newspaper, the post views only display the number of views after I switched to the theme. I’d like to be able to display all views from the moment a post is published (even though it might’ve been on a different theme).

After I saw Christopher’s reply, I disabled jetpack but the number of views in the counter hasn’t changed. Am I missing something?

I miss a share count too even though I like the new share buttons. Shares are important and should be shown.

@Marius I have the same problem. Which plugins cause that slowing down, because it’s really sloooooooooooow and it takes forever to add a new post.

Thanks.

I agree. I like the styling of the new buttons but miss the count and the twitter title when sharing.