Will all my shares carry over if I switch social sharing plugins?

• We know that social proof is an important part of the psychology of sharing. With that in mind, we want to ensure that your site is getting the credit it deserves (no more, no less) for all the social shares on pages and posts. Social Warfare finds the share counts by making an API call to each social network, assuring that the most accurate numbers are taken right from the social network itself. This way, no matter what plugin you’re switching from, you will always have the most accurate share numbers.

I just shared the post but the numbers didn’t update. Why not?

• In an effort to supercharge the load speed of the plugin and to allow for the sorting of posts by their popularity, we cache (temporarily store) the share counts with the post in WordPress. These numbers are updated on the following timescales:
• New posts: Updated once every hour
• Posts older than 3 weeks: Updated once every 3 hours
• Posts older than 2 months: Updated once every 6 hours
• If you would like to manually reset the cached share numbers for specific posts you can do so by following these steps:
• Navigate to the post editor for that particular post.
• Update the post.
• Now the next time the post is loaded, it will fetch new share counts.
• That should solve 99.999% of instances where the counts are not updating in the expected timeframe. If you have gone through all the above, but the counts are still not updating, it could be a another caching plugin that is not allowing the Social Warfare cache to be rebuilt properly. First, try this. If that doesn’t work, drop us a line.