Pasted local links change, break.

  • On my site, I often include a ‘footer’ (not in the WP footer) at the end of each post which details other related news items that users may wish to read for backgruond and/or context. However upon upgrading to 2.7, the Visual Editor will not paste these verbatim, which I often do to save effort in researching past stories within the same category/tag.

    For example, when I copy/paste a link called:
    “UK Culture secretary wants international age restrictions for web”
    directly from a post’s headline

    I’d expect it to be rendered in HTML as
    a href=”https://statismwatch.ca/2008/12/27/uk-culture-secretary-wants-international-age-restrictions-for-web/”>UK Culture secretary wants international age restrictions for web

    However the visual editor produces
    a href=”../2008/12/27/uk-culture-secretary-wants-international-age-restrictions-for-web/”>UK Culture secretary wants international age restrictions for web

    Which then gets rendered by your browser as
    a href=”https://statismwatch.ca/2008/12/272008/12/27/uk-culture-secretary-wants-international-age-restrictions-for-web/”>UK Culture secretary wants international age restrictions for web

    Is there a way to prevent this behavoir? I’ve been fixing these links by hand while making posts, since I can’t paste directly from HTML editor to HTML editor in some cases.

    Thanks for any advice!

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