Thread: How can we remove the "URL:http://" displayed without a URL?

How can we remove the "URL:http://" displayed without a URL?

I just began testing 2.9.3 and would like to upgrade my site to this version.

One issue I found is that ads display "http://" when no URL is included in the ad. This lonely "http://" is hyperlinked to nowhere.

You can see what I mean in this screen-capture:
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How can we prevent the entire URL field from being displayed if the person did not enter a URL into their ad? I don't want the "URL: http://" to show at all when there is nothing to link to.

I think there was a change in 2.9.3 that was meant to fix the problem of people forgetting to include the "http://" part when entering their URL into the post-form (a fix I had requested, lol). But this present issue with the empty http:// being shown is even more of an issue.

Re: How can we remove the "URL:http://" displayed without a URL?

In the changelog info it mentions the following which could help you:

-added new function to check for http:// in new ad URL field submission. If it's missing, automatically add it. (form_process.php line 41 & functions.php line 418)

Re: How can we remove the "URL:http://" displayed without a URL?

Thanks Pepsi,

I solved this by removing the following line from form_process.php (didn't have to touch functions.php) -

Re: How can we remove the "URL:http://" displayed without a URL?

To herb: That didn't work for me. The URL http:// is still in the ad although the user did not specify a URL.

I think what David added was the function that if the user specific no URL, it will still show http:// but it will link to the ad's permalink. However, what I want to happen is if there's no website provided by the user, I want that http:// to disappear from the ad post itself. How can it be done?

Re: How can we remove the "URL:http://" displayed without a URL?

Hi,
I am new here and new to classipress. I am just about ready to launch my site, but I have the same issue. If someone doesn't insert a website it shows like this
URL: http://
the http is a link that opens a new page and says- URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.
Has anyone figured out a way to fix this?

Thanks