Title: link management bug
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# link management bug

 *  [fibbi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fibbi/)
 * (@fibbi)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-management-bug/)
 * Hello, I mean to post this as a bug report, and this seemed to be the closest
   thing i could find. If it’s the wrong place, please redirect me.
    Don’t know 
   if this has been mentioned already, but when you enter a link as “www.XXXX.XXX”
   and neglect to add the [http://](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-management-bug/?output_format=md),
   it displays the link as “[http://blog.domain/www.XXXX.XXX&#8221](http://blog.domain/www.XXXX.XXX&#8221);.
   Many people enter url’s this way, so I would suggest changing the link displayer
   so the default was not to display an undeclared URI as a subdirectory of the 
   blog, but rather so it, by default, added http:// and www. to the beginning of
   the string as needed(as most browsers do). By my guess, a lot more people who
   enter a link without fully declaring it mean for it to be http than mean it to
   be a subdirectory of their site. Maybe this has already been reported (I’ve seen
   this occurrence on a couple of blogs) or maybe there’s a reason to have it the
   way it is, I don’t know. just giving my 2 cents.

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-management-bug/#post-64287)
 * Please file a bug report at [http://mosquito.wordpress.org](http://mosquito.wordpress.org)
   
   This seems to a meaningful improvement.
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-management-bug/#post-64296)
 * This is a very common gotcha. And it would help if it was tidied up a bit.
 *  [moisie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moisie/)
 * (@moisie)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-management-bug/#post-64301)
 * A link may not automatically be http:// though, the majority of the time it will
   be but not always, could be ftp:// , https:// and so on.
    This is how browsers
   work, if you make a page and don’t specify http:// or whatever is applicable 
   then it will append it to the url of the site you are on or as specified by <
   base />
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-management-bug/#post-64305)
 * maybe adding (including [http://)](http://)) would help! autoincluding it would
   limit the powers in the hand of the user… 🙂
 *  [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-management-bug/#post-65205)
 * What about for protocols that don’t use the / though? What if I want a [RSS] 
   gif that links here:
 * feed:[http://www.theillustratedlife.com/index.php/?feed=rss2](http://www.theillustratedlife.com/index.php/?feed=rss2)
 * WP adds the http:// and breaks the link.

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 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
 * 5 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-management-bug/#post-65205)
 * Status: not resolved

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