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While trying to solve a different issue (the Jetpack Related Posts module issue I referred to above), I stumbled upon the fix!

If you’re having similar issues and your site is hosted on DreamPress/a varnish server, you’ll definitely want to try this:

Quoting the very helpful Ipstenu-DH, who responded to my Jetpack issue in the Jetpack forum:

You’re going to have a problem with your URLs ?? and I suspect that’s why Jetpack’s being weird.

https://www.thezenofmaking.com/2014/12/tutorial-resin-thread-spool-bracelet.html

Notice how they end in .html? We’ve been working through some issues where Varnish decides those are legit HTML pages and caches them as static content, versus the dynamic that WP should be.

We strongly recommend not using .html in your URLs, and just change your permalinks to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

Then you can use this to redirect all the posts without loosing SEO:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/([^/]+).html$ https://www.thezenofmaking.com/$1/$2/$3/

It would go at the top of your .htaccess. If you open a ticket, we can help you with that.

Of course, you’ll want to change my URL to yours in your own .htaccess.

After I made the permalink/.htaccess changes and cleared my varnish cache, my admin toolbar was immediately restored on single post pages, and Jetpack immediately began to function properly.

Holy cats, you just fixed an issue that I’ve been working on for 3 days with only 30 seconds of work. Thank you so much, Ipstenu-DH!

In addition to fixing the Jetpack Related Posts module issue, changing the permalinks structure and updating my .htaccess also fixed the issue I was having with my admin toolbar not displaying on single post pages.

In case anyone else is having this problem, the permalinks structure should actually read as follows: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ (There was a typo in the post above.)

Thanks again!

Thanks, thetasteofaussie–the fix worked perfectly!

Thanks for getting back to me!

Yes, I’m referring to the Pin It button that’s part of Jetpack sharing that is displayed inline with the other social sharing buttons at the bottom of my posts.

Out of curiosity, I just tried installing Pinterest “Pin It” Button Lite (the Pinterest plugin I used before Jetpack added Pinterest to sharing). For what it’s worth, the pin count does work correctly with that plugin, so it seems like Pinterest is indeed currently supplying accurate pin count information. (I’ve deactivated this plugin again to avoid any confusion.) Alas, I’m not sure if this information will help clarify the mystery, or just add to it.

Thanks again for your help!

I too was forced to disable. The self-promotion button that I can’t uncheck destroyed the alignment with other items below my post, so the plugin had to go.

Self-promotion on a free plugin? Totally fine. Forcing the change with no explanation, no warning, and no way to throw you some cash to opt out? Totally not.

We could not add the option to the Official button yet; we will add it as soon as Pinterest supports it. We will also add counters to the “Icon+Text” as soon as it’s possible.

Until then, I’m afraid I do not know of any work around this.

Since the official button with counter is native to Pinterest, how is it possible that the site doesn’t support it? Or are you saying that the multiple images option isn’t supported? I’m a bit confused, since I’m using another Pin It button plugin with the official button and counter, and it plays nicely with WordPress and multiple images. As far as I know, the Pin It button plugin I use is using the native Pinterest jscript.

If that setting doesn’t work on your site, would you mind posting a screenshot of the widget, as well as the Featured Image settings in your Post editor?

Featured images work just fine on my site, just not in Jetpack. Before the latest Jetpack update, both the official Pinterest button in Sharing and the Top Posts & Pages displayed the featured image. Now they show the last image uploaded and added to each post.

Here’s a screenshot of my featured image settings: https://www.thezenofmaking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Featured_Images_Screenshot.png

Here’s a screenshot of the same post at the top of the Top Posts & Pages widget with the wrong thumbnail displayed: https://www.thezenofmaking.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Top_Posts_Widget_Screen_Shot.png

Thanks again for your help!

I added the Pinterest button to my site using “Icon + Text” as instructed. (I left my other sharing buttons in place, but you can see it at the very bottom of individual posts if needed.) The result: it works perfectly with “Icon + Text” but not with “Official Buttons.”

Using the official buttons with counts is pretty important for audience interaction, so I’d love to figure out why the official buttons won’t work.

If it helps at all, out of curiosity, I briefly enabled the Top Posts & Pages widget with “Image List” selected to see if the correct images would show up in the thumbnails for each post. The result: the same single incorrect image that displays when I select “Official Buttons” in Sharing is displayed as the thumbnail in Top Posts & Pages. (The image displayed seems to be the last image that I uploaded and added to a given post.)

Thanks for your help.