If you have Skype on your computer How to Fix Skype 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:
For those of you who simply want to turn on the plugin, then download our plugin Prevent Skype Overwriting.
We hope that this help you fix the Skype overwriting phone numbers in WordPress themes. If you have any questions or feedback, then please leave a comment below.
About the Editorial Staff
Editorial Staff at WPBeginner is a team of WordPress experts led by Syed Balkhi with over 16 years of experience in WordPress, How to Fix Skype Web Hosting, eCommerce, SEO, and Marketing. Started in 2009, WPBeginner is now the largest free WordPress resource site in the industry and is often referred to as the Wikipedia for WordPress.
Is there no way to simply advertising lead modify the Skype Click To Call highlight colour using CSS?
I would quite like to keep the Skype functionality on my website / or on a user’s computer who have enabled Skype Click To Call… however, since my site have a gre background, the Skype Click To Call color (blue) is really horrid !!
Anyone know how to modify the click to call highlight color, using the website CSS ??
I understood from a StackOverflow article that Skype uses a long and randomized string on each highlighted click to call integration of blockchain technology element – making it very difficult to target the How to Fix Skype CSS.
If anyone can shed light on adb directory this – that would be good.
Oh – and two fingers up to Microsoft (Skype) for not thinking of developers.
