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JCE Content Editor Remove Auto URL Linking

August 7, 2012 by Pat Fortino

Starting with version 2.2.2 of the JCE Content Editor for Joomla, there is a new feature that automatically creates a link from a URL in your text. This can be a real pain if you often type example URLs that are fake. For example, when writing How To procedures, you might write a URL like http://mysite.com.

JCE Content Editor 2.2.2 +, the awesome editor for Joomla, added a new feature that can be a real pain: Auto URL Linking. Auto URL Linking automatically turns a url in your text into a link.

For example, if you type http://mysite.com, JCE editor automatically makes it a link.

This could be a nice feature if you always want to make URLs in your text into links. But there are a couple reasons not to make URLs links:

  • For Search Engine Optimization purposes, you don’t want too many outgoing links.
  • If you write “How To” procedures like I do, you often write example urls; eg, http://mysite.com.

The problem is that if you don’t notice the auto linking, you get links you don’t want, or, if you use example (fake) URLs in a procedure, Google will pick them up as broken links.

Here’s How to Turn Off Auto Linking in JCE Content Editor

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  1. Valerie Myers says

    January 27, 2013 at 4:49 pm

    Would you know how to do with email links? I have some fake emails on my website, intended just for explanation purposes, as you described above, but they still work and will open my email program. If you don’t answering that would be much appreciated.
    Thanks!
    Valerie

    • Pat Fortino says

      January 29, 2013 at 7:41 am

      I assumed the code supplied by JCE would turn off url AND email links. Do you have them entered on the page in this format: mailto:someemail@mysite.com ?

  2. Aaron Severson says

    January 29, 2013 at 12:10 pm

    Pat — Thank you for posting this. I have been fighting with the autolinking feature (especially since JCE apparently no longer allows you to select a block of text with multiple links.

    Here is a question: The custom variable disables auto URL linking when you are typing, but it does NOT disable it when pasting text. For example, if I type http://mysite.com, JCE no longer converts it to a link. However, if I copy that fake URL and click paste, JCE does convert that. Do you know how to disable auto-linking on paste?

    Thanks so much!

    • Pat Fortino says

      January 30, 2013 at 6:26 am

      You have to paste as plain text. On a mac, Shift + Option + Command – v

      • Aaron Severson says

        January 30, 2013 at 11:52 am

        I disabled paste as HTML completely, which is somewhat inconvenient, but less so than having to manually remove links and risk missing some of them. I wish I could figure out how to completely disable the function — I tried renaming the autolink editor.js script and even the folder it was in, hoping that would disable it, but no soap.

        Given the inconvenience this thing poses, you’d think the developers would provide some kind of backend control. I’m at the point with JCE where I end up writing most of the content in straight HTML because it’s less of a hassle…

        Thanks!

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