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The Zolton.org Social Plugin (ZOSP) is a simple plugin for WordPress that 
integrates a blog with popular social networking sites such as Facebook and 
Twitter. I wrote this plugin to learn WordPress plugin development, and as a 
means to decouple these social networking features from my desired WordPress 
theme.
Features
<ul>
<li>Includes the Facebook JavaScript SDK in your WordPress theme.</li>
<li>Generates Facebook Open Graph tags for posts and pages.</li>
<li>Includes the Facebook Like Button and Send Button on posts and pages.</li>
<li>Imports the featured image / post thumbnail (if available) from a post or 
page for use as the featured image on Facebook.</li>
<li>Generates a Facebook Comment section for posts and pages.</li>
<li>Includes the Twitter Tweet Button on posts and pages.</li>
<li>Includes the Google +1 Button on posts and pages.</li>
<li>Includes the Pinterest Pin It Button on posts and pages.</li>
<li>Optionally hides WordPress comments.</li>
<li>Configurable via WordPress setting page.</li>
</ul>
Requirements
<ul>
<li>A Facebook App ID.</li>
<li>A Twitter account.</li>
<li>WordPress theme supporting featured images / post thumbnails.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Known Issues</h3>
<ul>
<li>“Leave a Comment” link is still visible when WordPress comments are disabled.</li>
</ul>

Zolton.org Social Plugin

A simple plugin for WordPress that integrates a blog with popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

This plugin will query the popular social network APIs and retrieve the number of shares/likes/plusones from each. All shares are added up and calculated together to give you the total number of shares. All that is returned is a simple number. This number represents the number of shares, likes, tweets, +1’s, and pins.
The plugin can be utilized two ways, the first method is the AJAX route which will require you to add a little javascript to your template. This method is the preferred method if you are requesting the share count for multiple posts on one page load. For example on an archive page. Below is a quick example of how that is done:
<pre><code>jQuery.get(ajaxurl, { action: "get_total_shares", url: "<?php the_permalink(); ?>" }).done(function(data) { var shareNum = parseInt(data); // your total number of shares }); </code></pre>
Note: You can call this AJAX anyway you wish, but you must pass <code>the_permalink();</code> as the <code>url</code> parameter and <code>"get_total_shares"</code> for the <code>action</code> parameter.
If you are just displaying the share count for one post at a time, you may use the plugin shortcode to return the number. That shortcode is <code>[tyme_share_count]</code>
This plugin also refreshes the Facebook Open Graph scraper each time a post is published. This ensures the proper images and content are being served to Facebook when shared.

Tyme Social Count

Calls popular social network APIs and returns a total share/like/+1/tweet/pin count from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and Pinterest.

Zolton.org Social Plugin vs Tyme Social Count