First, you put the link in properly, with the http:// in front, or use the link buttons to add the link to your blog. And most WordPress blogs will convert www leading links into the correct form. If you leave the www off, it can misinterpret, so you have to write it in its right form.

Actually, “link dumping”, what I call dumping full URLs into blog posts is bad form and ugly. Short ones like http://www.cnn.com isn’t the end of the world, but long ones are. Put them in a proper text form like CNN and you will not have this problem.

WordPress can’t read your mind and know what you mean when you put in a bad link form. It doesn’t know where the link is to go, within your page or outside.

I find thay when adding a link in wordpress it will append the domain once or twice to the left before the domain i wish to link to.

For example, say i want to link to http://www.cnn.com
I write my post as usual, then i highlight the word to link and add in the URL.

You would expect this would work, but it does not and all links end up like this :

http://www.mydomain/%20/http://cnn.com

Even editing it in HTML mode does not help. If you know how to fix it ….do let us know..

That’s true and thanks for the link. The deprecated.php file hasn’t been around for very long, so many aren’t familiar with it. Thanks for the reminder to all.

The deprecated function API does not handle all of the WordPress deprecated function list. I think a better term would be obsolete function API, since all of the functions in deprecated.php are marked using the deprecated function.

The other “deprecated” functions are not marked using the deprecated function and therefore theme and plugin authors will not know what they are, unless they look at the list.

Overall, while I’m not happy that about the whole deprecated/obsolete, whatever it is good. I think going forward theme and plugin authors can expect that when functions and files should not be used, that there will be notices (quite literally) about their mistakes.

The deprecated functions have been documented (not sure if all of the documentation has been committed. If someone runs PHPDocumentor on the WordPress source, they will get an extra 4 or 5 functions that won’t pop up notices.

Yes, that is right, there aren’t that many functions that are deprecated! You would think that people would read deprecated.php every once in a while. Oh yeah, that file has been documented, but since the functions are deprecated no one should be using the documentation anyway. The reason to read it is to get the functions you should be using.