Is there a plugin that makes URLs default to external links?

  • On our site, we implement a lot of forms where our vendors will input their own information (such as business website URLs) to be displayed on our website. They often leave out the “https://” and WordPress ends up interpreting this as an internal link.

    Because of this, what happens when a vendor inputs their website (and they input something like “www.yarniapdx.com” for example), when this link is later clicked by an end user, they get a 404 error page because our site tries to take them to “https://urbancraftuprising.com/www.yarniapdx.com”.

    Is there a plugin or hack that will tell WordPress to assume all links are external, so that if a vendor happens to enter their website as simply “yarniapdx.com” it will take them to the actual external link “https://yarniapdx.com”? As of right now I am having to go through every single submitted link and manually add the “https://” so these broken links don’t happen. It’s very tedious! ??

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