Title: Latest Update Has Broken Plugin
Last modified: June 26, 2017

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# Latest Update Has Broken Plugin

 *  Resolved [divewithfrank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franklewis/)
 * (@franklewis)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-has-broken-plugin/)
 * The latest update seems to have broken this plugin. I got a 500 server error 
   and so I took a look at the error log.
 * [25-Jun-2017 21:05:21 UTC] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /
   home/blah/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-embed-facebook/lib/class-wp-embed-
   fb-plugin.php on line 20
 * Line 20 actually looks like this:
    static $link_types = [ ‘href’, ‘uri’ ];
 * So I’m not seeing the problem.
 * Suggestions? The error took down the whole site. I went in and moved the the 
   facebook embed plugin directory for the time being.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [Miguel Sirvent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poxtron/)
 * (@poxtron)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-has-broken-plugin/#post-9266286)
 * I have changed all array syntax from [] to array() on the new update, it should
   work without any problemns now. However the issue has to do with using a PHP 
   version previous to 5.4. I recommend you find a new better hosting with a more
   updated version of PHP preferably 7.0 or grater.
 *  [Lisa Cerezo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisathirdsideco/)
 * (@lisathirdsideco)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-has-broken-plugin/#post-9274255)
 * I would concur with the PHP diagnosis. This plugin is still working fine on my
   client’s website.

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Lisa Cerezo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisathirdsideco/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-update-has-broken-plugin/#post-9274255)
 * Status: resolved