Facebook likes reset after moving to HTTPS
- by aarondicks
I've got a question regarding the Facebook like button.
We worked on a piece recently that embeds a number of social share buttons (please see the source code below).
When the piece was released, it was on HTTP, and received over 2k likes (the URL 'slug' hasn't changed at all). The site was recently migrated to permanent-on HTTPS, and the like data has been reset, and we've been left with 50 new, recent likes.
If you see in the source code, the URL is set explicitly to like the HTTP version, which I believe to be correct. Can anyone help me work out what's happened here?
Here's the HTML bit of the like button:
<div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.harveywatersofteners.co.uk/history-interior-design" data-layout="box_count" data-action="like" data-show-faces="false" data-share="false"></div>