Posted 1 year ago #
External protocol links do not seem to work when added to the Blogroll. I'm attempting to link to a Ventrilo server using:
ventrilo://example.server.com:1234/servername=Example
But WP prepends this with "http://", resulting in a broken link. Is there a workaround for this?
A friend of mine pointed me to wp-includes/kses.php but the functions do not seem to be related to links in the blogroll.
Yeah, I wish they'd get rid of that...
If you look in admin-functions.php, in the edit_link() function, around about line 600, you'll find this line:
$_POST['link_url'] = clean_url($_POST['link_url']);
Comment that line out or remove it entirely. That should fix it to allow you to put whatever you please in there.
Posted 1 year ago #
Bwah, apparently they changed some of the functions relating to all of this between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3, which caused me a bit of confusion when looking at different versions of source code.
The clean_url function looks like it has some semi-important stuff in it, so I was hesitant to comment the whole line out, so I took a closer look and narrowed it down to the following change:
wp-includes/formatting.php @ Line 1082
FROM:
$protocols = array('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet');
TO:
$protocols = array('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet', 'ventrilo');
Thanks for your reply; it definitely pointed me in the right direction. It's a shame this turned out to be a core file edit. That always leave a dirty taste in my mouth.
That will work as well, but commenting out the line I pointed you to (specifically, the clean_url line) will eliminate this entirely, allowing you to use any protocol you like. I find this to be a much more suitable fix than simply adding protocols to that list.
clean_url() does more or less what it says, it takes the URL you put in and attempts to clean it up. I dislike Wordpress trying to second guess me there, and simply disabling that line prevents it from mucking with my URL at all (short of special character cleanup).
Posted 1 month ago #
My problem is that I write in an external link I want in a post in code but as soon as I switch to "visual" or "view site" WP has changed the link to point back to my own blog.
Is this the same problem as you explained about the edit_link()function?
If so, where do I find admin-functions.php so I can comment out that line 600?
By comment out, do you mean adding: <!-- to start it and --> to end it?
Sorry to be a deunce! I sure appreciate your help.
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