Change OG URL To HTTP

When you shift your blog from HTTP to HTTPS, all your posts/pages lose facebook likes/share count. The only way to regain these likes/share counts is to add a ‘OG URL’ tag that points back to the older ‘HTTP’ urls as described here by Facebook.

This plugin helps you do just that.

For example, if you use a SEO plugin like Yoast, the OG URL tag automatically reflects the HTTPS version for HTTPS URLs. This plugin adds a filter to the ‘OG URL’ output and changes it back to ‘HTTP’ for all existing posts/pages. New posts that you add after this plugin is activated will not be affected.

Similary, the canonical URL tag remains unchanged as ‘HTTPS’. Canonical tag is used by search engines like Google. So you are good when it comes to SEO.

…