Title: [Plugin: Social Links] Long URL Errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Social Links] Long URL Errors

 *  [kyleboddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kyleboddy/)
 * (@kyleboddy)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-social-links-long-url-errors/)
 * The errors people are having with their Facebook (and other) social sites getting
   cut off is due to a bug in the code at line 370:
 * `user_info VARCHAR(55) NOT NULL;`
 * When the plugin is activated, it creates a field with a maximum of 55 characters
   for site URLs. This is obviously insufficient for many sites, specifically Facebook.
   The correct line (with respect to memory considerations) should read:
 * `user_info VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL;`
 * What users can do to resolve this issue with already installed plugins are:
 * 1) Log into PHPmyAdmin and change this field to accept a maximum of 255 characters,
   then re-add each site that was faulty.
    2) Log into the MySQL database as admin
   using Toad or another MySQL editor and issuing the following command:
 *     ```
       alter table wp_social_links
       modify user_info VARCHAR(255);
       ```
   
 * wp_social_links is what my plugin database table is named, but yours may not 
   be.
 * Contact your webhosting technical support to have them walk you through either
   step. Hopefully the author will patch this plugin soon.
 * -Kyle
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-links/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-links/)

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 *  [piccioli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piccioli/)
 * (@piccioli)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-social-links-long-url-errors/#post-1594953)
 * great! why not changing the plugin ?

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-social-links-long-url-errors/#post-1594953)
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