Twitter counter not displaying

The code that generates the tweet button is outdated and you’ll have to manually update it if you want it to display properly.

In functions.php find this block of code:

<a href="<?php echo esc_url( 'https://twitter.com/share' ); ?>" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Tweet</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>

Replace it with this:

<a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" data-show-count="true">Tweet</a><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The code is correct. What’s happening is that Twitter discontinued the tweet count feature for the tweet button as they have announced in a blog post last year. Nothing we can do about it I’m afraid.

Later Edit: A service called OpenShareCount claims to integrate with the Twitter button and retrieve share counts. I haven’t tried it so can’t confirm it’s accuracy. They require you to sign up for an account with them.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Daniel Tara.

There’s the CSS code I recommend to style that section:

.social-bookmarks > div + div {
    margin-left: 30px;
}

.facebook-like {
    width: auto;
}