Topic: Count how many times a member shares content on social media

Count how many times a member shares content on social media

Long Beach Web Design
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@lbpp

9 years, 12 months ago

Hi, I am new to Buddypress and after searching the forums I could not find the answer. Is there an easy way to keep a count of how many times a member shares your website content on social media.

For example, a member of my site shares an article I posted on Facebook, then in their statistics it would show they have shared 1 piece of content. Ideally this would work with any share button I include in the content. Does anything like this exist already or is it even possible?

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Henry Wright
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@henrywright

9 years, 12 months ago

Hi @lbpp

It’s definitely possible but will need some custom code (unless you can find a plugin in the Plugin Directory?)

Long Beach Web Design
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@lbpp

9 years, 12 months ago

Hey @henrywright thanks for getting back to me. Yes I figured it would require custom coding. I have scoured the plugin directory for something close to this and could not find anything. If I were to develop a plugin like this can you point me to buddypress documentation that would be helpful to get started?

Henry Wright
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@henrywright

9 years, 12 months ago

It wouldn’t be BuddyPress documentation you’d need, rather, WordPress documentation. Take a look at the articles on user meta, specifically look at the get_user_meta() and update_user_meta() functions.

The general idea would be to increment a user’s share count each time something is shared by that user.

Refs:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_meta
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta

Long Beach Web Design
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@lbpp

9 years, 12 months ago

I see… Yes I should have realized that all the user meta was stored in the default table!! I guess I kinda meant if I was going to develop a buddypress specific plugin where would be a good place to start, but I suppose it is like any other WP plugin. Thanks for the insight @henrywright!

Henry Wright
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@henrywright

9 years, 12 months ago

Yeah, all BuddyPress sites will have the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables. See here for a description of the WordPress database and here for the BuddyPress one.

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