Title: Changes external Links
Last modified: February 7, 2017

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# Changes external Links

 *  Resolved [MikkelCrunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikkelcrunch/)
 * (@mikkelcrunch)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/)
 * Hi,
 * why does the Plugin change the Link URL to an external Site?
    From http:// (in
   the editor) to https:// (in frontend) – the site does not have https – so it 
   looks like this: [https://www.gims.swiss/de/](https://www.gims.swiss/de/)
 * Thanks for your help!
    Mikkel

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 *  [Kostas Vrouvas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosvrouvas/)
 * (@kosvrouvas)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8791451)
 * Hello, it doesn’t link to an external website. When you add an SSL certificate
   your website changes to [https://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/?output_format=md),
   so this plugin forces your website to redirect to https.
 * Read more about it here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS)
 * All you need now is an SSL certificate, you can ask your host about Let’s Encrypt(
   which is free) or a commercial licence.
 *  Thread Starter [MikkelCrunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikkelcrunch/)
 * (@mikkelcrunch)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8806432)
 * Hi,
 * maybe I wasn´t clear enough. We have a certificate. All is working with internal
   linking. No mixed content and so on. But, if an author writes an article about,
   for example, the Geneva Autoshow and puts in the external link to their website
   with http – your plugin makes a https link out of it.
 * Mikkel
 *  Thread Starter [MikkelCrunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikkelcrunch/)
 * (@mikkelcrunch)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8806513)
 * I have hardcoded Links in the footer to external Websites. These are Partners
   which pay for the Link – I put in [http://website.com](http://website.com) – 
   target – blank and so on (hardcoded in Footer) – your Plugin makes a [https://website.com](https://website.com)
   link out of it. So the User is coming to an insecure not reachable Website. I
   know, that they should have a redirect “installed”… but a lot of just don´t…
 * Mikkel
 *  [Kostas Vrouvas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosvrouvas/)
 * (@kosvrouvas)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8921242)
 * Hi there [@mikkelcrunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikkelcrunch/)! 
   You are right, there is a bug that forces all external links to https too! Would
   you like to test a fix we made, before pushing it to production?
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by [Kostas Vrouvas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosvrouvas/).
 *  Thread Starter [MikkelCrunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikkelcrunch/)
 * (@mikkelcrunch)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8921308)
 * Hi Kostas,
 * I´m really looking forward to test a fix. I deinstalled your Plugin and installed
   Really Simple SSL – and it still changes all my Links – its really really not
   good… So yes please – tell me how I can test it!!!
 * Many Thanks
    Mikkel
 *  Thread Starter [MikkelCrunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikkelcrunch/)
 * (@mikkelcrunch)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8921943)
 * Is this something from your Plugin?
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on [OR]
       RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ [OR]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} https
       RewriteRule .* - [E=WPR_SSL:-https]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
       RewriteRule .* - [E=WPR_ENC:_gzip]
       ```
   
 * Is this causing the SSL rewrite? (is in the htaccess) file
 * Greetz
    Mikkel
 *  [Kostas Vrouvas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosvrouvas/)
 * (@kosvrouvas)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8921964)
 * Hello, sorry for the late response, we are trying to reproduce it here (though
   we reproduced it but can’t do it again. That’s why I haven’t sent you the fix.
 * The plugin doesn’t add or change anything in htaccess so this is definitely not
   from us. And, yes it’s probably what causes the https in external links.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by [Kostas Vrouvas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosvrouvas/).
 *  Thread Starter [MikkelCrunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikkelcrunch/)
 * (@mikkelcrunch)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8922016)
 * Ok I will try fixing the htaccess… Thanks anyway for your answers!
 *  [Kostas Vrouvas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kosvrouvas/)
 * (@kosvrouvas)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-8945665)
 * Hi, any chance this was caused by your htaccess?
 *  [John B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrburcher/)
 * (@jrburcher)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changes-external-links/#post-9211215)
 * Hi,
 * I can confirm that the same issue is happening on our wordpress aswell 🙂
 * Any update on the new version you mentioned earlier?
 * Thank you!

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