[J]

Is this possible?

[Steven Zahm]

Are you certain this question pertains to Connections? It has no options in regards to forcing HTTPS.

[j]

My apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I got here from clicking on the Support Forums link for “Connections Business Directory,” version 8.2 from my WP site. In the README documentation within the plugin, update 8.6.12 indicates “* OTHER: Replace http with https for wordpress.org and connections-pro.com domain links.” Every time I put a link into one of my connections, the URL is autotmatically pre-pended with HTTPS, no matter what I do. This causes some of my active links to be directed to an error page when the linked domain does not support HTTPS.

[Steven Zahm]

The item in the changelog you are referencing are only links within Connections which resolve to this site and wp.org.

If you are speaking in regards to when you add a link URL address to an entry, Connections will prefix this the link with http:// if it was not provided. It does not prefix with https. I just double checked the code to make sure.

Perhaps another plugin in forcing the https???

Please try the plugin conflict check.

Let me know what you learn

[J]

Hmm. Well, I’ve disabled every plugin on my site, and then I re-activated only Connections Business Directory. It’s still doing the same thing, no matter what I put into the URL field under the Links for any connection, it is adding https://. If I put http://, it removes that and adds https://. Even if I remove http://www., it will still add https://. This only happens in this one specific area in the Connections URL field specifically, and no where else on my site. The Title field directly above the URL field does not do this, and my workaround right now is just telling people to highlight the Title and copy/paste to get to the link. It didn’t use to do this, this is new behavior within the past year or so, and it seems that even previously created links without HTTPS have been updated to HTTPS. Creating a brand new entry still exhibits the same behavior. Perhaps I’m doing something wrong, but I’ve been trying to figure this out for a few months now.

[Steven Zahm]

This is almost certainly being caused by something outside of Connections…

Please create a temp admin account using this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

Send me the token URL, as a private reply, and I’ll take a closer look today.

[J]

Everytime I post a URL in a reply, even a private reply, I get this message – *** Forbidden. Message seems to be spam. ***

[Steven Zahm]

Send it to me via the Contact link at the very, very, bottom of this page.

[Steven Zahm]

I received the email with the token link.

I was able to track down the cause to the theme. You are not the first user to experience this issue:

https://themeforest.net/item/mayashop-a-flexible-responsive-ecommerce-theme/2189918/comments?page=45&filter=all#comment_2424880

Their issue was the opposite though, it was changing https to http.

The theme’s filter basically forces SSL or not on all URLs run thru the core WP function to escape (clean) URLs based on whether the calling page is SSL or not.

Such a filter is fine if all the links are only ever going to be internal to the site but as you’ve experience this is not good if another plugin uses URLs and they are external.

To correct this issue, I installed the Code Snippets plugin and added the following snippet:

function cn_remove_maya_clean_url_filter() {
  remove_filter( 'clean_url', 'yiw_ssl_url' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'cn_remove_maya_clean_url_filter' );

This removes the filter added by the theme allowing WP to filter URLs normally again.

I’ll also include in this in the next Connections update.

Hope this helps!

[J]

Thank you so much! That did resolve the issue. I really appreciate your time looking into this matter.

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