How do I force a hyperlink to open in the desktop version of a browser?

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  goonerak · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 1:22 pm

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  Hi

  I want to force a hyperlink to open up in a desktop version of the browser.

  This page in particular:
  http://thearsenalhistory.com/arsenal-line-ups/

  When viewed on a smartphone, if the user clicks on the link to “Arsenal First Team Line-ups” it opens in the mobile version of the browser. This gives an error “Nothing Found”.

  However, if I click on the link in a desktop version of the browser it is OK.

  The HTML code is:
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  Arsenal first-team line-ups

  Is there something I can add to the code to force the link to open in the desktop version of the browser?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 28, 2013 at 4:43 pm

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  Let’s see what we can figure out.

  First off, can you double check that the URL for the “first team line ups” page is correct: http://thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm

  I’m not seeing any pages on your site with that URL. Looking at “Dashboard–>Pages” I see the “about” page and the “arsenal line ups” page. But nothing about the first team line ups.

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  goonerak · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 4:57 pm

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  Hi

  http://thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm

  Is an external page that I am trying to link to.

  If you look at
  http://thearsenalhistory.com/arsenal-line-ups/
  You will see the link at the bottom of the page.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 28, 2013 at 5:48 pm

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  The issue is that the URL http://thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm is not an external link. It is a page on the same domain that your WordPress.com site uses, thus, an internal link. And as far as I can see, it is a page that does not exist.

  Unless I am just missing something?

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  goonerak · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 6:06 pm

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  The link only works if you include “www” at the start of the url:

  http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm

  Try clicking on the link at the bottom of the page
  http://thearsenalhistory.com/arsenal-line-ups/

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 28, 2013 at 6:23 pm

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  I get the same error page if I use http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm or just http://thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm

  I am curious if your browser is looking at a cached version of http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu.htm that existed at one point. What happens if you try to go to that page using a different browser? Was thearsenalhistory.com ever hosted elsewhere aside from WordPress.com?

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  goonerak · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 6:34 pm

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  Well spotted. Just cleared my browsing history, etc and now get page not found.

  I need to sort out that problem first.

  I have redirected my wordpress blog to the domain http://www.thearsenalhistory.com which means that I can’t use the host for anything else. Unless you know otherwise?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Oct 28, 2013 at 7:03 pm

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  I think the easiest solution for you would be to create a new “page” and change the permalink to be http://thearsenalhistory.com/stat/aftlu This is essentially what you did when creating your “about” page.