Title: Needlessly rewrites links
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Needlessly rewrites links

 *  [WraithKenny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wraithkenny/)
 * (@wraithkenny)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needlessly-rewrites-links/)
 * So a link like `<a href="#use-js">` becomes `<a href="http://www.example.com/
   sub-page/#use-js">` in the source code, and breaking JavaScript, so that the 
   content author and website developer will be taking off guard and loose hours
   of development time. I love when plugins do this.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/)

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 *  [jduree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jduree/)
 * (@jduree)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needlessly-rewrites-links/#post-3347501)
 * I have the same problem. This breaks fancy box 2 inline content. any way to fix
   this?!
 *  Thread Starter [WraithKenny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wraithkenny/)
 * (@wraithkenny)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needlessly-rewrites-links/#post-3347502)
 * I disabled the plugin.
 *  [jduree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jduree/)
 * (@jduree)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needlessly-rewrites-links/#post-3347503)
 * did you use a different plugin to handle your analytics code?

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 * Last reply from: [jduree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jduree/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/needlessly-rewrites-links/#post-3347503)
 * Status: not resolved