WP 2.0.5 Cant add links ie mailto:

ali-butt
(@ali-butt)

17 years, 4 months ago

Hi All,

I have an issue where I cant save any mailto links. If i try and add a new link of

mailto:a@a.com

after i hit save, the link changes to http://mailtoaa.com/

So we can see that its stripping the “@” and also swapping my “mailto” with “http:”

i see that others are having similar issues and one fix was to add the ascii code for @.

I was thinking that as i am running 2.0.5 is there a beta update somewhere which addresses this problem (i know this big has been logged somewhere – i found it whilst searching 🙂

thanks all
Ali

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Samuel B
(@samboll)

17 years, 4 months ago

Are you doing the full code?
<a href="mailto:bob@bob.com">email me</a>
email me
Also turn off the wysiwyg editor.

Thread Starter ali-butt
(@ali-butt)

17 years, 4 months ago

Hi Samboll,

I didnt make myself clear. I just clicking on “links” from the dashboard screen.

From there i select “Add link”

If i create a brand new link there and for the uri i type in your:
email me

as soon as i hit save, the link changes to:

http://&lt/;ahref=mailto:bobbob.com>emailme

am i making sense?

Samuel B
(@samboll)

17 years, 4 months ago

Aah,,,well it will work if you turn the rich editor off and insert the link with the “link” button in the basic editor.

Thread Starter ali-butt
(@ali-butt)

17 years, 4 months ago

I would like to try that 🙂

where do i turn off the rich editor? I can only see an option for “Rich text editing for Users”, which i have tried turning off, but it doesnt help.

How do i convert WP so the admin interface uses the basic editor?

many thanks
Ali

moshu
(@moshu)

17 years, 4 months ago

Well, if I understand well, you are trying to add an email link in the Link Manager (admin > Links > Add Link). It will not work.

Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)
(@otto42)

WordPress.org Admin

17 years, 4 months ago

What changed? This definitely used to work in previous WordPress versions, but I tried it on 2.05 and he’s correct, it did not work.

Matter of fact, looking at the code, this absolutely should work. Something is broken somewhere.

Thread Starter ali-butt
(@ali-butt)

17 years, 4 months ago

HI Moshu,

That is EXACTLY what i am doing 🙂

So will we have to wait for an update? is there not a cvs that i could try?

Cheers
Ali
ps it was working 100% in 1.5.2

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

17 years, 4 months ago

It was working in earlier WP 2.x releases too.

Anyone logged it to trac?

Thread Starter ali-butt
(@ali-butt)

17 years, 4 months ago

HI HandySolo

Is this what you mean

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3299

Is there a fix?

WPChina
(@wordpresschina)

17 years, 4 months ago

Ali-butt, yes that is the problem I’m having too with the new upgrade.

It works if I disable WYSIWYG, but my users can’t do that all the time. 🙁

moshu
(@moshu)

17 years, 4 months ago

WPC – the Link Manager and the wysiwyg have nothing to do with each other. It would be nice if you read the topic before posting…

WPChina
(@wordpresschina)

17 years, 4 months ago

Sorry, you’re right–I skimmed over the third post too quickly to see that he clarified this was about the link manager and not the wysiwyg (which also has a problem better left for another post).

🙁

Thread Starter ali-butt
(@ali-butt)

17 years, 4 months ago

How long do things hang out in bug-trac?

Chris_K
(@handysolo)

17 years, 4 months ago

Until programmers/project leads evaluate, schedule and address them.