Hyperlink problem when using shortcode in email

  • anneepage

    (@anneepage)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Love this plugin,

    I am having one problem though, everytime I try to use the gview shortcode in an email I sent to my blog the email server auto hyperlinks the URL (I notice that for the shortcode to work it needs to not be hyperlinked).

    I have as yet not found an email server that does not do this, even when you take the hyperlink off before you send.

    Is there any way you can change something in the URL format for the shortcode (or add a second format option) so that we can use spaces/underscores… in the URL to stop the autohyperlinking from happening?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-document-embedder/

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  • k3davis

    (@k3davis)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    You may want to look into using the File Base URL setting in your profile(s). If all your URLs start with the same path (or you only have a few, and use profiles that are the same with the users you email) then you only need the relative portion or even just the filename inside the shortcode. Then your email client isn’t likely to create a link out of it.

    Another alternative might be to instruct your users to paste the shortcode in the Text editor rather than the Visual editor, depending on how the link is being formed. You may also have a setting in your email client that turns autolinking off.

    Not that I don’t want to be helpful if neither of those cases fit your needs, but I don’t really think it fits with GDE otherwise to create a weird version of its shortcode for emailing purposes – that’s a pretty niche problem. But if there is a large public demand for such a feature, let it be stated here. 🙂

    Thread Starter anneepage

    (@anneepage)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    I did go through those points and couldn’t find any way of disabling the auto-hyperlink option, I also have no way of knowing what email clients my bloggers will be using.

    The File Based URL option works but not when linking to PDFs that are on other websites which is what I was trying to do.

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