Title: Strange problem with Facebook like code
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Strange problem with Facebook like code

 *  [mg2c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mg2c/)
 * (@mg2c)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-problem-with-facebook-like-code/)
 * I had added Facebook follow&like buttons to my wordpress site using a code, that
   I needed to put on the site using the shortcoder plugin (the buttons sit within
   a sidebar). The goal was, to not insert a “general code” for the entire site,
   but make the code page-specific. This worked, but all over sudden, the buttons
   do no show anymore.
 * Here is the code I am using:
    `<p><iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden;
   height: 21px;" src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?locale=en_US&href=[url]&
   width&layout=button_count&action=like&show_faces=false&share=true&height=21" 
   width="225" height="150" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>`
 * The culprit for the “non-show” seems to be the `[url]`-part of the code. This
   is supposed to read out the current url of the PAGE, which in the past it did
   without problems. As for a test: When I exchange that little snippet with a proper,
   single URL (using [http://xxxxxxx](http://xxxxxxx)), the Facebook buttons show
   up. That means: that very `[url]` snippet of the code stopped reading out the
   page’s URL.
 * I just do not remember, how this little snippet grabs the URL. Is that coming
   from somewhere else in my wordpress installation? Is that a common code? Has 
   maybe that code lost its function after upgrading to WP 4.3? I don’t think, that
   this little snippet is part of a shortcoder-function, since I vaguely remember,
   when writing that code, that this was not part of shortcoder’s “language”.
 * Sorry, but I am just stuck, so any help would be most appreciated.

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