rockstix

Thanks Tara for your advice and fast reply. I’ll give the steps ago.

Cheers,
Rockstix

You’re welcome Canonjon. Glad it solved your issue as well. It was doing my head in too. ??

The plugin called ‘My Videotag’ is not on the WordPress plugin site that I can see. It was found and installed originally from within WordPress from a plugin search. It had only started doing the redirect recently. I’ve had the plugin installed for several months. It was redirecting all links with in posts but not links within widgets etc.

For me, it was a plugin ‘My Videotag‘ causing the redirect to Linkbucks. Instead of deactivating it, I went into its settings and turned the button ‘Contribute to the author’, which was on, to ‘off’. It removed the redirect.

I found a solution. Add either or both of these lines to your wp-config.php file (as I’m not sure which one fixed the problem, maybe it was both together).

define(‘UPLOADS’, ‘/yourblog/wp-content/uploads’);
define(‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘https://yourblog.com/wp-content’);

Obviously replace ‘yourblog’ with your blog name.

It will bypass the the directory it can’t write to and creates a new directory which it can write to.

Hope it works for you too.