{"id":16154,"date":"2013-01-16T20:39:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2025-04-04T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:27:11","slug":"fb-href-absolute-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/fb-href-absolute-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Fix for Facebook Like Button Href URL Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In your WordPress recently, you might chance upon the Facebook Like Button suddenly displaying a red \"<strong>error<\/strong>\" instead of showing you the count for Likes, and when you click on the red error, you are directed to  a Facebook page with the following shown: \"<strong>The href URL must be absolute<\/strong>\".<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re not sure what is the cause behind this, after a few trial-and-errors (because we can\u2019t help ourselves), we found the culprit to be the <code>urlencode<\/code> function.<\/p>\n<p>Look at your theme\u2019s codes, where the error occurs and find:<\/p>\n<pre>echo urlencode(get_permalink());<\/pre>\n<p>Replace it with the following:<\/p>\n<pre>echo get_permalink();<\/pre>\n<p>And the error would have been rectified in no time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your WordPress recently, you might chance upon the Facebook Like Button suddenly displaying a red &#8220;error&#8221; instead of showing you the count for Likes, and when you click on the red error, you are directed to a Facebook page with the following shown: &#8220;The href URL must be absolute&#8221;. 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