10 Reasons Why MashShare Is Better Than Other Social Media Plugins

A few points why MashShare Is Better than other sharing plugins: More API Calls than other plugins Sky Rocket Performance Huge Full Width Responsive Buttons Widget for Most Shared Posts Easier Customization Better Open Graph and Twitter Card Integration Share Count Dashboard Easy User Interface Developer Friendly with large docs base Well Coded. Yes, We Do Know Unit Testing …

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Why It’s a Good Idea to Connect MashShare with Facebook

Why it’s a good idea to connect your facebook account with MashShare Faster growing of your share counts More accurate share counts More visual social sharing activity MashShare offers the option to be connected with your facebook account. As a benefit you get much higher API call rate limits than your website would have without connecting your account. MashShare only receives …

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The Unbelievable Story of Why We Were Offline Today

We use redundant databases and application servers, so we are usually very safe if a server failure occurs. One of the other systems can handle the extra load without any problems. So we feel safe for any possible server problem and are well prepared, but today our website had a few hours of downtime. That …

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How Facebook And Other Networks Calculate Share Count

How Share Count of Facebook And Other Networks is Calculated As you know your MashShare Share Buttons are having a prominent share counter beside of them. As it is often unclear how this counter is generated and what the share count means in detail i am trying to bring some lights into the dark today. MashShare is returning the …

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Facebook REST API is deprecated for versions v2.1 and higher

If you are trying to get the share count of your posts with the facebook REST API endpoint https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?format=json&urls=https://www.mashshare.net  you get the error message REST API is deprecated for versions v2.1 and higher. The reason for this is that facebook switched the REST API endpoint into deprecated state on february 7th with an official announcement saying: …

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Why aren’t your add-ons free or donation based?

Or, why the donation model is not a sustainable business for plugin developers! You read the headline and you might think what a weird statement? Obviously this sound weird but from time to time we get questions like: There is free plugin XY which is doing similar like yours. Why aren’t your Add-Ons free? Can you send me …

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MashShare 3.X Update News

We are happy to say that the release of MashShare version 3 in general went very well and we received a lot of positive feedback and congrats for this much more powerful new version. Unfortunately there was a bug in the very first version of MashShare 3.0 and on a few customer sites the previous MashShare settings …

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Download MashShare Open Beta 3.0

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Edit: MashShare 3.0.6 is released so this article is outdated.   Today i’ve released the first open beta version of MashShare 3.0 (Code name: TheMountain) This is a huge update which contains a whole bunch of very cool features like: – Big Performance Improvement: Asynchronous Share Count Aggregation – Most Popular Posts Widget – Open Graph …

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Fix the error: get_currentuserinfo() is deprecated in WordPress

After updating to latest WordPress version 4.5 i stumbled over a lot of plugins which are throwing the error get_currentuserinfo() is deprecated. (One of the mentioned plugins is mailpoet 2.7.1 which is not updated, yet) The exact error message is: Notice: get_currentuserinfo is deprecated since version 4.5! Use wp_get_current_user() instead. in /srv/www/wordpress-develop/src/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3657 …

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What is new in WordPress 4.5 Features & Screenshots

WordPress 4.5 is announced to be released tomorrow at the 12th of April when everything goes well. In this article i am going to show you what’s new in WordPress 4.5 including the new features and screenshots. Visual Editor Inline Linking A very cool and nice looking feature is inline linking which allows you to link with an …

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