All Facebook likes reset to 0 after hosting shift

@Madhur

This should not happen until your Permalinks ae changed....

Can you post your blog link?

Harsh

http://madhurchadha.com/2012/03/gurgaon-8-pm-rape/

this url had over 5 K likes and a few 100 tweets..all gone...only google + is there

Have you changed any plugins, domain name or URL structure of your blog? If not, then this shouldn't really happen, especially in case of self hosted wordpress blog.

I recently shifted my self hosted wordpress site from one wordpress account to another

He has moved the wordpress site, so the domain has changed I guess. 

Nop..the structure is same :(

How can plugins really effect the FB likes?

@hemal, No Wordpress was the platform, it was self hosted

Are you talking about FB likes on a Facebook page or likes on individual posts?

If it is only individual posts, then it is managed by either adding a plugin or manually adding like button in template.

Individual Pages..I already have the necessary plugins installed. I Use jetpack

The URL structure was indeed changed

I looked through the archives of your blog and found that the URL of that post is really http://madhurchadha.com/2012/03/14/gurgaon-8-pm-rape not http://madhurchadha.com/2012/03/gurgaon-8-pm-rape

If you test via https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button/ , you will see that the page still has 5,659 Likes and 116 Tweets ( http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://madhurchadha.com/2012/03/14/gurgaon-8-pm-rape )

A workaround would be to change the Share URLs to the Old Post URLs but keep the Post on the current URL (As I have checked the old URL does a 301 redirect to the New URL )

Other thing people recommend is pointing the Open Graph og:url Meta tag to the old Post URL (But this has some problems as well , if all your posts weren't using the Old URL Structure , then this might lead to problems in counts. Also currently your post don't have any Open Graph Meta tags other than og:image )

You will have to change the URL structure again or Likes will not appear (Once information about a URL is created in the FB database , that can't be transferred to another URL) But be careful as your posts are now a mixture of ones using the URL those that were migrated from the Old URL structure and ones which were created on the New URL structure  . 

So I suggest changing the URL structure of the ones that were migrated from the old URL Structure to their original URL. This will introduce non-uniformity in the URL structure but is the only sure way to get the Share counts back easily

Hope this helps

Oops ..This is embarrasing ,  I thought the structure was same.I simply changed the permalink structure and I am all set :)

> Not sure How i missed it. A very Big thank you to Prayag...Thanks a Lot dude, you made my day :)

Cool! I believe the issue is resolved and it is now clear what caused the issue. I will lock this thread. If anyone wants to reopen the thread, please IndiMail me / other IndiPolice.