What bit of code do I have to break to stop 'smart' URL renaming?

Ok - this is a recent 'feature' that is annoying me....

You know when you post a URL like 'http://www.finewoodworking.com/' and the bulletin board software thinks 'oh wow man, no way, that's like far too computeroid for people, man, I'm gunna look up that page right now and use a better title for it man...' and it rewrites it as Fine Woodworking - videos, project plans, how-to articles, magazines, and books

What bit of php do I have to permanently break to STOP THAT IRRITATING BEHAVIOUR!!!!!!! Thank you computer, I am quite capable of writing a description and hotlinking it if I feel that this is either more appropriate or more understandable...until I do this, LEAVE MY URLs ALONE!!!!1eleven.

I don't know but you can edit out if you switch off WYSWYG in the reply.

I will have a look.

The single quotes you used seem to have preserved the expression you want, as well as the hot link. That's probably the best work-around. IIRC, double quotes disable the hot link, sometimes deliberately. But it's hard to tell how long that will last.

I have an extensive list of forum posts in the old format (t=nnnnn, without descriptors), and they're automatically converted to the new format when I post a new link. The 'nnnnn' stays with it, at least, so they still work.

I feel your pain, but changes of all kinds are inevitable. Trying to be resilient can keep you agile.

Switch off WYSIWYG? Oh - "Automatically retrieve titles from external links" under Miscellaneous Options.

Cheers,
Joe

Yes Joe. That is the one.

MS you turn off the

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Automatically retrieve titles from external links

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under the message box, however this has to be done every time you put a link in as it automatically resets.

I personally like it.

Cheers.

I'll just be roadkill on the highway of progress!!

(which of course now explains why my posts sometimes seem to take ages and ages to save - trying to retrieve header info for a linked site that is responding slowly!!)

I just tried the UN-checking trick on a reply to another thread, and BINGO! No need for the single quotes.:2tsup:

MS, if the address is displayed, you can stop loading the rest of the page to copy the address. Brute force (re-typing) also works, but must be exact.

Cheers,
Joe

Permanent solution to disable it - Greasemonkey and the following user script - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8199 will automatically uncheck all boxes and disable the annoying VBSEO plug-in "Automatically retrieve titles from external links" from rewriting your carefully thought-out links.