Use a plugin.

All WP themes read the comment count data from the WP dbase; it’s up to the comment plugin to ‘write’ that info to the dbase. Disqus does that, but it doesn’t seem to work on the author page, but does on the post pages themselves, I found when I used it. Facebook is loaded on FB’s system so not really technically possible without setting up some API hooks which is outside normal scope of theme.

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Theme has worked fine with Disqus since 2013, so not an issue as long as you setup the sync properly to save data into your WP install — not managed by theme. Again, only issue is the comments count on ‘author page’ template; which can be removed from the template. May not work on modules, but I always turned that off as I thought it served no purpose and used system resources.

Food for thought anyway.

You don’t need to run ccleaner on your computer or anything like that. Clearing browser cache should also do nothing whatsoever related to ‘sharing’ content on G+.

What can affect sharing is whether you are logged in or not, whether you are in incognito mode, whether you look like a bot, if behind some kinds of proxy, but mainly the only single one issue at all is whether you have proper open graph tags (og:title, og:description), or similar markup properly setup for your posts. PERIOD. FULL STOP. THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

Google will only pull the data from YOUR website, not your computer! So, the cache on your PC hard drive has nothing to do with anything, except your ability to SEE changes to websites.

So, if you “view source” on your actual post; and you have all the proper open graph tags, and don’t have console errors breaking Google’s bot, they will grab the content properly unless there is time out.

This is well covered in the Google support docs for those who RTFM:
https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/

So, theme does not control the open graph main data, which you would manage with a suitable SEO plugin like Yoast SEO or All-in-One SEO, or custom functions, or whatever.

Note that Google may choose to not grab your content for some internal filter reason such as “steal this YouTube video for fun and profit…” — if your page content hits some internal filter/blacklist thing (e.g,. how to steal YouTube videos might trigger that; or some other kinds of content).

SO:
a) check your post page with F12/console view in Chrome; fix any ‘errors’
b) check your post ‘view source’ for proper open graph tags, no duplicates from using multiple plugins (like using Yoast SEO *and* another SEO solution at same time would break that) — and
test post with Google testing tool:
https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool
c) go back and read the docs page from Google to make sure you know what you’re doing.

If all things are correct and data still not being pulled, it would generally mean your server is ‘timing out’ before Google can capture the information. This happens with *all* social media, from Facebook to Pinterest and Google+ — the bot has a certain amount of time to view page, and if it can’t render the DOM in that time, it moves on. That can be caused by YOUR server/hosting, OR by Google, OR by the “pipes” in between Google’s bot and your server. Nothing you can do about that except try again later.

That’s it.

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

Did you look inside the theme folder under plugins?

Not my theme. As suggested, comments are not part of theme, but part of WordPress core — so useful to go look at the plugins which have been around, some for the past 5-10 years on WordPress.org …

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/comment+captcha/

start with this one:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-captcha/

Any plugin which works with WP standard comments should work with *any* theme.

Welcome to WordPress!

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• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

@Anupp
Note it may be conflict with a plugin you’re using like FB comments. ‘oembed’ is part of WP not the theme, so embeds always work in visual editor in the theme unless you have a broken plugin, bad code on page, etc.

Note the error for your page in Chrome console

Application Error: There was a problem getting data for the application you requested. The application may not be valid, or there may be a temporary glitch. Please try again later.

LinkedIn has been having some system issues this past week, I’ve noticed. I was getting a blank page to share to a ‘group’ from our main site (not using newsmag theme, btw); but if I went and did manual entry on our LinkedIn business page, it would work.

Could not share anything to groups yesterday morning (Wed.).

So, sometimes it’s just a ‘time out’ issue on *any* social system.

Pinterest starting having hiccups also, as they began fully rolling out the sub-topics feature (e.g., if you have an existing pinterest topic like ‘food’ — you could now share and create a sub topic like ‘chocolate’ …)

Welcome to the interwebs!

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

Maybe do full upgrade vs just the patch?
Maybe something is mis-matched.

WP Booster is optional; so you may want to simply disable it for the moment.

Might simply be a caching issue in that specific web browser still loading portions of old code, same time as new code.

Make sure you completely clear browser history/cache in those browsers, clear cache on site (if any), consider clearing micro-transients with WP-Optimize plugin *and* ‘resave permalinks’ … this often does the trick.

• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

When you migrate to https you need to do several things

a) do search/replace in your dbase to replace all old image and text internal links for http version of site to https
b) make sure you have proper 301 redirect for all site pages and images to redirect from http to https if entered in browser window
c) you need to follow GOOGLE’s explicit directions for migration to https, including adding NEW version of site as https to search console, and test + submit sitemap(s) for the https version of site
d) consider adding explcit version of URL in your wp-config.php file also
e) if running AdSense ads, update your site info for your ads in your ads account to https version of site

Google considers http and https versions of site to be two different things. SO, once your https version is in search console they will no longer index the http version, and you will want to REMOVE the sitemaps from the http version in console.

I went through this torment in 2014. So, it’s a little bit of a process.

Also sucks that your “inbound links” and such will drop if you have an old site (our main site went online in 2000), since they also consider https > inbound links to be different than http > inbound links. Kind of sucks. I’ve been waiting since 2014 for them to have a proper “merge sites” thing, but noooo…. it’s not like they’re in the search engine business or anything (*grrr*)

Not sure if that helped or not, but there you are.

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• This reply was modified 8 years by simchris.

Ignore the 500 error; that happens when you change or update themes without using a ‘under maintenance plugin’ — just mark fixed, and ignore 🙂

Mainly a WordPress issue in that Google grabs stuff while the site is in “two states” .. and so you get sometimes the story ID vs the permalink, or broken links since the pages don’t render correctly with missing elements, CSS, jscript, etc.

So, you might see ‘cached’ copies loaded, which I think might be those ?=postid stuff

( I don’t work here; just long time WP user )

Do you have proper open graph meta tags?
Google will generally use the og: tags to pull content. So you do need the og:image, title and description tags in place.

Normally you would setup a maintenance plugin when changing themes to let Google know not to spider your sitemaps while your system is in flux. While one theme is removed and other is being activated, your content can be messed up.

Normally you can clear errors, resubmit your sitemaps; resave your permalinks and they will not reappear unless you have an errant plugin running or CDN issue.

Did you try the normal methods ?

e.g.,
https://wpsmackdown.com/embed-youtube-playlist-wordpress/

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Issues all over web with adsense, regardless of site or theme, at the moment.

First, try pasting your code into a basic HTML sidebar widget, and see if your ad starts to populate. That’s what I do as starting point. Then go from there.

Disable thumbs in the theme panels settings under modules … there have to be thumbs for each of the modules; but if not using certain modules, just turn them off; or, turn them all off, and see which modules ask to be turned on. You can also ‘zero out’ the sizes in the wp main admin panel under media for the small/medium/large sizes, as needed.

Several things you can also do
a) install ‘limit login attempts’ plugin to blogk people and bots trying to guess all your user passwords

b) disable XMLRPC, as this can result in thousands of hack attempts

c) make sure under wp > discussion the first two items disabled

Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article
Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles

This helps a lot on ANY WP install.

and, as noted learn to use Google as good starting point for exploring how WordPress, social sites, sharing, etc. all works:
e.g.,
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/

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Do you have the ‘www’ set to redirect properly 301 redirect to the non www version? You should only have *one* version as canonical, one version setup in your WP panel settings for site, one version should resolve on the web (ideally).

You would need to first import the content into a post category, using something like FeedWordpress, where links point at external site, but pulls in the thumb from the external site using something like Auto Post Thumbnail Pro plugin; then you’d have the category like “In Other News” which could be used as a module. Obviously, without the content in dbase, and the thumbs hosted locally, the modules won’t work.

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Theme does not control WordPress basic settings; you may have bad plugin running that breaks something …

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

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