WordPress modifies text www.domain.com and includes the a href HTML

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  mxlab · Member · Aug 22, 2013 at 5:09 pm

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  When a text contains for example http://www.google.com, WordPress will automatically adds an a href HTML so that the text is clickable. See http://blog.mxlab.eu/?p=2176&preview=true

  When running a security blog and posting in some articles URLs, I always make sure the URLs are not clickable (by adding/modifying to hxxp:://). In some cases I need to be able to publish a correct URL/information and whenever the malicious URL includes www, WordPress adds the a href to it when viewing the article in public.

  When I open the article and modify the view from Visual to text, I should see the HTML source but there is no a href to remove from the line.

  Is there a way to avoid this behaviour?

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  mxlab · Member · Aug 22, 2013 at 5:11 pm

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  Please note that I haven’t added the http:// before the www when publishing. So it happens here as well.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Aug 23, 2013 at 2:07 pm

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  Hi there, auto-linking domains with www is a feature of WordPress.com. To work around it, you can flip to Text view and put a span tag around the www. part, so it would look like:

  <span>www.</span>google.com

  This will bypass the auto-linking.

  Just let me know if you have any trouble with it.