If you have Skype on your computer you may have noticed that sometimes Skype highlights phone numbers automatically when you visit a website. From a WordPress developers point of view this can be very frustrating. Not only can it make your site look bad, but it can mess up the layout as well. In fact, just recently we had a client whose page kept breaking because Skype was highlighting his phone number. Fixing this problem is not very hard. All you have to do is add some code to the head of your HTML document and it will prevent Skype from highlighting numbers in your theme no matter what browser it is being displayed on. This is the code you should paste:
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
Make sure it is between the <head> and </head> tags.
For those of you who simply want to turn on the plugin, then download our plugin Prevent Skype Overwriting.
Ah it seems like I have a plugin that is overriding it so I need to add it somewhere else as well…
Cheers,
Karen
Has anyone else found that this doesn’t seem to work in IE8?
I’ve tried the plugin too with the same results – it works sometimes like on the Home page of a wordpress website but not on all the pages….
Good, dut keyword skype_toolbar is not registered in HTML5 (http://validator.w3.org).