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# Celeste - Shareaholic

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[SexyBookmarks | Upgrade to the Official Shareaholic Plugin today!] Why doesn't Recommended use my posts' "featured image"?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-doesnt-recommended-use-my-posts-featured-image/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-doesnt-recommended-use-my-posts-featured-image/#post-3545570)
 * Hi mandielew,
 * I ran a reprocessing of the images used in your recommendations. It looks like
   there were six where an image was not generated, but this has now been fixed.
   You should see the results on your site within an hour. Make sure you empty all
   caching before you check.
 * Just in case you happen to run into a problem like this again, you can refresh
   the data we have indexed quite easily from within your plugin settings panel.
   [This article](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/201072648-How-to-Refresh-page-details)
   will provide you with more information.
 * If you need additional help with the plugin, please feel free to contact us directly
   by [submitting a request](https://shareaholic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)
   through our support center so that we can speak with you one-on-one. Thanks!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts - Shareaholic] How does related posts actually work?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-related-posts-actually-work/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-related-posts-actually-work/#post-4074958)
 * Hey again, Mercelo 🙂
 * Good observation! At this time, Related Content is optimized for English-language
   sites, but this is one of the aspects we wish to expand as development continues.
 * If you would like to [contact us directly through our support center](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)
   with an account of what you’ve observed on your sites, some suggestions of how
   you’d like to see this feature improved including examples, and any other feedback
   you have to offer in regards to Related Content, we’d love to hear from you! 
   And I’ll make sure your email is also forwarded to the engineer who works on 
   this aspect of the product.
 * Related Content is an active project that we work on daily, so expect many advancements
   through the coming year and beyond. We are striving to make this feature the 
   best available and have greatly improved functionality–leaps and bounds–over 
   just the past couple months since this version, which was built entirely from
   scratch, was released.
 * This isn’t a project we will be neglecting or abandoning. It’s high priority,
   and we look forward to delivering the most amazing related content feature around.
   Stay tuned!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts - Shareaholic] How does related posts actually work?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-related-posts-actually-work/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-related-posts-actually-work/#post-4074956)
 * Hi! I just ran across this thread when sifting through old cases. The best way
   to get a hold of us quickly is by submitting a request through our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com/).
   This will also allow you to receive personalized help.
 * Now, onto the questions.
 * How Related Content works:
 * First, when our plugin is installed on your site, our server attempts to index
   the pages of your site by checking for an XML sitemap and retrieving the URLs
   from this list, passing them into our processing queue to be crawled as individual
   pages.
 * When the pages are crawled, we extract various pieces of data that are used in
   calculating the relationship of one page to another. Meta tags are definitely
   useful to provide more information about your content.
 * We have continued to work on the intelligence portion of this app so as to improve
   the calculated relationship between pages. This is a complicated coding process,
   so I am unable to provide specific details in how the machine learns, but it 
   is the backbone to the Related Content app.
 * Once we have data for each page, a file is generated to summarize a list of pages
   so that it can be passed along to the recommendations engine, which handles the
   delivery of your recommendations. The app is a very complex network of systems
   that work together to produce this feature, and it will continue to improve as
   we further refine the code.
 * There are additional aspects that aren’t explained above, but this is generally
   how Related Content works at this time.
 * If you are having trouble with images, you might just need to refresh your page
   data in our system. [Here’s an article](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/201072648-How-to-Refresh-page-details)
   with information on how you can do this independently from your settings panel.
 * And if you have any additional questions, concerns or issues that haven’t yet
   been resolved, please do submit a request through our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com)
   with your website address, a description of the problem, and any steps you have
   taken to try and resolve it independently. Thanks so much and happy holidays!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [Shareaholic and WP 3.7.1: array error utilities.php line 680](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shareaholic-and-wp-371-array-error-utilitiesphp-line-680/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shareaholic-and-wp-371-array-error-utilitiesphp-line-680/#post-4281162)
 * Hi pikkabbu,
 * Are you still receiving an error message? Could you please check if you have 
   another instance of Shareaholic inactive in your list of plugins? If you have
   Shareaholic v6 deactivated in your list, remove (delete) the v6 plugin to see
   if this resolves the problem for you.
 * If you are still having trouble, please contact us directly through our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com/)
   with your website address and a link to this forum thread for reference, and 
   we’ll be happy to troubleshoot with you. Thanks!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[SexyBookmarks | Upgrade to the Official Shareaholic Plugin today!] Need Cache Cleared](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-cache-cleared/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-cache-cleared/#post-4314576)
 * Hi Jacob,
 * We performed a refresh of the page data for hollandstivers.net yesterday. If 
   you would like to manage this in the future, there is a button on the General
   Website Settings page that you can press to re-crawl all pages we have indexed
   for a site. [Here’s an article](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/201072648-How-to-Refresh-page-details)
   with more information.
 * If you find that the refresh yesterday did not fix the recommendations and you’ve
   emptied all site caching and local caching before checking, please reach out 
   to us directly through our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com/) 
   with any new information and a link to this forum thread for reference, and we’ll
   be happy to investigate further. Thanks!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts - Shareaholic] Minor Comparability Issue with WP3.7](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-comparability-issue-with-wp37/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-comparability-issue-with-wp37/#post-4254229)
 * Hi Angus,
 * It sounds like you need to set the data-attribute for the link you’d like to 
   share because you manually positioned the Share Buttons outside of your looped
   content. What happens when you do this is that the stats from the most recent
   post are usually detected by the app, which means that’s also the post your readers
   would be sharing. Now, if you would like to keep this behavior, do nothing, and
   the Share Buttons will dynamically pull in the link based on what’s detected 
   on the feed page, and if they load on a permalink page, they will pull the link
   for the permalink, allowing your readers to share that page from the widget area.
 * I assume that you read the [Positioning Apps Manually](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/articles/200470606-Positioning-Apps-Manually)
   guide for information about using the shortcode to place apps in a widget. Near
   the beginning of [this support article](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/replies/?output_format=md),
   there is information about setting data-attributes for passing information into
   the app if you’d like to do so.
 * As for the time it takes to load the Share Buttons, you’ll find that on individual
   pages, it loads pretty quickly, but usually after the rest of your page content
   loads. This allows your readers to start reading without having to wait for the
   resources to load before the page renders.
 * You’ll find that on your feed pages, if you have the apps enabled, it will take
   longer for a couple of reasons. One, there is a lot of content that loads on 
   these pages even without our plugin, which usually includes a fair share of image
   files and maybe scripts and resources from other plugins. Our buttons are loading
   multiple times, hooking into the individual content, and just in case you also
   have the Related Content app enabled, because of the nature of this app, the 
   recommendations are specific to the individual content. You’ll probably find 
   that the apps load quicker if you were to lower the number of articles that appear
   on a single page in a feed.
 * Also, if you have share counts enabled, these numbers are being pulled directly
   from the servers of these services, which may cause a drag, depending on time
   of day and traffic levels on these servers. Disabling share counts quite often
   noticeably speeds up our Share Buttons app.
 * And don’t forget to consider caching. If you use caching plugins, this improves
   page load time. And for your readers, browser caching should also be considered
   as once the scripts have been stored locally, the apps will load much quicker
   on subsequent views. We personally cache our plugin resources on Amazon Webhosting
   Services to speed delivery. This service is used by many large technology companies
   for this purpose.
 * And yes, depending on your geographic location, you may experience delays if 
   the data is having to travel further from server-to-server.
 * I hope you found this information helpful. If you have any other questions or
   concerns, you can contact us directly through our helpdesk by visiting our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/),
   and thanks so much for your support! I hope that by using some of the above suggestions,
   you are able to improve the load time of our apps on your site. 🙂
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[SexyBookmarks | Upgrade to the Official Shareaholic Plugin today!] How to remove Twitter dependency on Shareaholic app](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-twitter-dependency-on-shareaholic-app/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-twitter-dependency-on-shareaholic-app/#post-4248849)
 * Hi Phil,
 * We are working on adding an option to disable the multi-share panel. However,
   we have been using OAuth for Twitter connection over the past couple years and
   haven’t found that this has had a negative impact on sharing. Actually, it has
   increased sharing, perhaps because of the custom interface that allows sharing
   to multiple accounts at once.
 * Authorizing our app is only necessary the first time you connect (there are many
   popular applications around the web that also use Twitter’s API and OAuth), and
   then a special key is generated for storing this setting so that there is an 
   automatic link detected between Shareaholic and Twitter, allowing our app to 
   share on your behalf whenever your choose to share with Twitter through our products.
 * [Here’s an article](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/200470586-The-All-New-Facebook-Twitter-Multi-Share-Panel)
   with information about the multi-share panel (that allows you to also share with
   Facebook in one step), which was rolled out at the beginning of the year by popular
   request. I hope you find this information helpful! 🙂
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[SexyBookmarks | Upgrade to the Official Shareaholic Plugin today!] Related Content Feature Not Working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-content-feature-not-working/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-content-feature-not-working/#post-4217672)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I was just sifting through old threads and stumbled across this one. I apologize
   for the wait. If you haven’t submitted a request to our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com/),
   or this issue has yet to be resolved on your site, please [contact our helpdesk directly](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)
   with your website address and a description of the problem so that we can assist
   you personally. Thanks!
 *   Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/)
    In reply to:
   [[SexyBookmarks | Upgrade to the Official Shareaholic Plugin today!] Plugin adds Google Analytics code to your site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-adds-google-analytics-code-to-your-site/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-adds-google-analytics-code-to-your-site/#post-7799337)
 * Hi Roger,
 * The Google Analytics integration was included in the plugin by request several
   years ago. The settings are available on the Social Analytics page of the plugin
   interface along with a link to documentation explaining how it works. When setting
   up the plugin, this is an optional feature that can be configured in the same
   manner that you can configure other features available within the plugin over
   their categorized settings pages.
 * Currently, this feature is not included in our [v7 redesign](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/200549077-Navigating-the-New-Plugin-Interface)
   that was released on [our other channel](http://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/)
   this summer. The sexybookmarks plugin channel will be upgraded to v7 in January,
   but you are free to install v7 before then if you’d like to give it a spin.
 * And just a snip from the documentation concerning Social Interactions:
 * “While event tracking can track general content interactions as well, Social 
   Analytics provides a consistent framework for recording social interactions. 
   This in turn provides Google Analytics report users with a consistent set of 
   reports to compare social network interactions across multiple networks.”
 * This feature is harmless and actually helpful. Please, take the time to read 
   the documentation for a better understanding. Also, you would need to include
   your Google Analytics Property ID into the input box on the Social Analytics 
   settings page for it to work when enabled.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[SexyBookmarks | Upgrade to the Official Shareaholic Plugin today!] Shareaholic Update adds 6 Recommended Posts with No Styling Instead of 3 or 4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shareaholic-update-adds-6-recommended-posts-with-no-styling-instead-of-3-or-4/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shareaholic-update-adds-6-recommended-posts-with-no-styling-instead-of-3-or-4/#post-4061680)
 * Hi Wanderer,
 * I apologize for the delay. I was sifting through old threads today and only just
   saw your response. Here’s an article I wrote yesterday that should help with 
   your image issue in case you are still having this problem: [http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/201072648-How-to-Refresh-page-details](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/201072648-How-to-Refresh-page-details)
 * If you have any further questions, you can contact us directly through our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com/)
   by submitting a request, and we’ll be happy to assist! 🙂
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts - Shareaholic] Related Content / Recommendations Not Working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-content-recommendations-not-working/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-content-recommendations-not-working/#post-3945495)
 * Hi, everyone!
 * I’m just now seeing this thread. The quickest way to get a hold of us and speak
   to someone directly is by contacting us through our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com).
 * For everyone that listed their domain, I’ve checked the data on our end and am
   performing new crawls to update our data with any changes that may have caused
   your page data to no longer be synced with your current settings (which are stored
   under a unique API key).
 * If you upgraded from version 6, the data on our end would not have updated to
   reflect this change. Also, if you pressed the reset button on the Advanced Settings
   page, this would stop recommendations from showing on your site, because a new
   API key was generated at that time. These are two specific instances that cause
   a syncing issue with the data we have cached.
 * Now, after running a new crawl for the three sites listed in this thread since
   we last commented, check on your site in a few hours (no rush), but make sure
   to empty all caches before flipping through your content, and you’ll also want
   to check for recommendations on both older and newer content.
 * If you are still running into a problem with Related Content visibility, please
   contact us directly through our [support center](http://support.shareaholic.com)
   for personal assistance. Make sure to describe the problem, any relevant details,
   the URL of this forum thread, and include your website address. Thanks!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[SexyBookmarks | Upgrade to the Official Shareaholic Plugin today!] Parsing error in rss](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parsing-error-in-rss/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parsing-error-in-rss/#post-3789080)
 * Hi softflip,
 * It’s been a while. I just wanted to check in on you to see if you are seeing 
   any similar problems in our [version 7 redesign](http://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/).
 * Just in case you haven’t yet upgraded, [here’s an article](http://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/200470576-How-do-I-get-the-stylish-new-share-buttons-on-my-WordPress-blog-)
   to help you through the transition.
 * Keep me posted–thanks!
 *   Forum: [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/reviews/)
    In reply to:
   [[SexyBookmarks | Upgrade to the Official Shareaholic Plugin today!] Desperate to use but it has a fatal flaw](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/desperate-to-use-but-it-has-a-fatal-flaw/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/desperate-to-use-but-it-has-a-fatal-flaw/#post-7788402)
 * Hi PhaseCreative!
 * As soon as I saw your review, I spoke with the team about making some modifications
   while we were continuing development on [our newly redesigned plugin](http://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/).
   We recently implemented some changes that should proactively address the exclusion
   issues you referenced. Our new data handler ingeniously provides us with more
   information about a page so that we can now identify when content is marked as
   private by WordPress.
 * And other than the Pages to Exclude section located under our plugin’s General
   Website Settings panel, we also introduced a nifty new option on the Post/Page
   Edit/Compose screen, allowing you to filter specific content without the need
   to compile a list of URLs.
 * This provides more options to publishers for better recommendations management
   and for better handling on our end to identify posts that should be automatically
   filtered from the recommendations’ rotation.
 * We hope you like the changes and appreciate that you took the time to focus our
   attention on this quirk. We’re very happy that we found an elegant solution and
   that we’ve improved data handling for all publishers. Your feedback has been 
   invaluable, and I hope you continue to utilize and enjoy our plugin.
 * We still have a lot of work planned as we continue to develop and evolve our 
   products, including [Shareaholic for WordPress](http://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/),
   but are delighted to receive input from those who are using our plugin on their
   site. Thanks for being awesome!
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts - Shareaholic] "You May Also Like" links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/you-may-also-like-links/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/you-may-also-like-links/page/2/#post-3794325)
 * Hi st3ph3n,
 * If you are running Shareaholic for WordPress v7+, on the Available Apps screen,
   you’ll see options to disable the Related Content app in different template views.
   You can enable them in all available templates or disable them in all available
   templates or select just the templates in which you’d like recommendations to
   appear, such as on your posts.
 * Related Content is a feature of the plugin that was first introduced about 2 
   years ago. Similarly, you can also select where Share Buttons appear on your 
   site through the Available Apps settings page of our plugin.
 * Some publishers like to just use the Share Buttons and others like to use just
   the Related Content feature, and then there are a large number who use both as
   complimentary features to encourage sharing on their site and keep their readers
   browsing longer, correlating with the bounce rate.
 * It is entirely the publisher’s decision which apps they feel are most beneficial
   for their site and where they’d like them to appear within their site. These 
   settings are customizable within the Available Apps screen.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts - Shareaholic] Related content not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-content-not-working-1/)
 *  [Celeste – Shareaholic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creign/)
 * (@creign)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/related-content-not-working-1/#post-4282913)
 * Hi Rebecca,
 * I’m looking at your site right now, and it appears that recommendations are displaying.
   Would you mind emptying your browser’s cache and refreshing your homepage to 
   see if this fixes the problem for you? If this doesn’t work, I’ll need your web
   browser version and operating system details so that I can open your site in 
   a similar environment to see if the visibility issue can be reproduced on my 
   end. Thanks for your help!

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