Title: social sharing issues
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# social sharing issues

 *  Resolved [AmJoh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amjoh/)
 * (@amjoh)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/social-sharing-issues/)
 * I want to implement social sharing functionality for videos (self-hosted) on 
   my site. There are a number of videos on each page and at the moment the social
   sharing buttons will take the page url and share. I’ve attempted to solve the
   issue by creating custom post types of video format, implemented the social sharing
   buttons in connection to each of those custom post type pages. Naturally when
   I am looking at the individual custom post type page the social sharing grabs
   the url of that post (correct) and it is fine. BUT when using Insert Pages to
   take each of those custom posts and insert them into the page where they are 
   all supposed to be displayed in the end, then the social sharing buttons still
   take the url of that page instead, and not the url of the post page that is being
   inserted.
    I am using social sharing buttons that are customized for the Patti
   theme. Do you have any suggestions of other plugins that might work to use the
   correct url for the share or any other suggestion to help? Would be greatly appreciated.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-pages/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-pages/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul Ryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figureone/)
 * (@figureone)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/social-sharing-issues/#post-6566690)
 * Hm, it seems like this should work okay if the social shortcode is using `the_permalink()`
   to generate the link. I can’t examine the code though since Patti isn’t an open
   source theme.
 * You can try to examine the theme code to find where the social sharing buttons
   get generated and see if it’s generating the URLs in some strange way.
 * Or you can try another social sharing button plugin like Easy Social Share Buttons
   to see if that works.
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-social-share-buttons/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-social-share-buttons/)

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 * Last reply from: [Paul Ryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figureone/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/social-sharing-issues/#post-6566690)
 * Status: resolved