There’s this weird thing about wordpress that it “needs” to make sure all the links you add are absolute links (i.e. they start with http://)

Well, for me, I would prefer if they do NOT check this and allow me to enter any kinds of links.

So I fired up the API documentation in search of some kind of “hooks” to allow me to do so but there don’t seem to be any.

So I had to resort to editing the source code itself.

Open up “wp-admin/admin-functions.php”

Look for line 483 or a line that looks like

$_POST['link_url'] = preg_match('/^(https?|ftps?|mailto|news|gopher):/is', $_POST['link_url']) ? $_POST['link_url'] : 'http://' . $_POST['link_url'];


and comment it out and done.

Tags: Wordpress