link 'destructor'

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 10:18 pm

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  I wish, I wish someone would create an automated link destructor – something that could go through ones posts in bulk and unlink all links. I’m working on something in a private blog that I want to export and then import into another blog and I so wish I could just break all the links in one go instead of having to go through them one by one. What tedium!

  Could this be done? Is it possible?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 10:19 pm

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  That sounds scary to me.

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 10:26 pm

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  Lol – why? Arent there any times when you’d like to zap all your old links that no longer work?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 10:27 pm

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  When I have the time I run broken links checks and remove or replace broken links in posts.

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 11:03 pm

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  Yeah, but you’ve still got to remove them manually. I’d rather have something to do it automatically. Ah well… one can wish.

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 29, 2012 at 11:53 pm

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  Have you tried copying the whole Post with in Visual mode and past the text into a PLAIN text editor (Notepad++ or Notepad) then copy and paste back into the original Post? Yes most of your formatting will go away but depending on the number of links might be easier.

  Yes a link remover could be done – the problem in a blog is working inside the Dashboard and controls of the blog – not sure how much demand there would be for that feature.

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Mar 30, 2012 at 1:14 am

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  @auxclass – that’s a good idea, I might do that for some of them that have a lot. Only problem with that is then I lose the image codes too… (I’ve images in nearly all my posts).