Title: Problem using base href tag
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem using base href tag

 *  [netdetective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netdetective/)
 * (@netdetective)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-base-href-tag/)
 * I have been using the <base href tag in header.php, and it works great for converting
   all relative img and insite page links into absolute links universally throughout
   my blog but it’s also creating a problem.
 * I cannot add any links to other domains without it adding my own base URL to 
   them, creating an invalid link. Is there an override tag I can use to disable
   the base href function for specific individual URLs?
 * [http://www.beyourowndetective.com/blog](http://www.beyourowndetective.com/blog)

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-base-href-tag/#post-415902)
 * Not that I’m aware of.
 * But you might want to seek out a forum oriented more towards “pure” web/(x)html
   as opposed to WP for a more informed answer.
 *  Thread Starter [netdetective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netdetective/)
 * (@netdetective)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-base-href-tag/#post-415999)
 * Such as codingforums.com?
 * I have always simply used a href=”../images, a href=”images, etc.. on static 
   pages, but I choose to use base href in WP instead, because I wasn’t sure if 
   the permalinks might cause a problem with relative links.
 *  [Medizinische Abkuerzungen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefansuedfeld/)
 * (@stefansuedfeld)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-base-href-tag/#post-416000)
 * If you link to an external link (starting with [http://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-base-href-tag/?output_format=md))
   the base-href-tag in html is ignored.
 * Or did I get you wrong?
 *  Thread Starter [netdetective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netdetective/)
 * (@netdetective)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-base-href-tag/#post-416014)
 * I discovered the problem. It’s the AXS integration plugin. Disabling it solved
   the problem.
 * Maybe I need to get a newer version that doesn’t cause this problem?
 *  Thread Starter [netdetective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netdetective/)
 * (@netdetective)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-base-href-tag/#post-416020)
 * I made a new discovery. Unchecking “Automatically track offsite links (attempts
   to track offsite links in comments and posts)” in Options > AXS Integration fixed
   the problem.

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## Tags

 * [base](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/base/)
 * [href](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/href/)

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 * Last reply from: [netdetective](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netdetective/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-base-href-tag/#post-416020)
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