AutoLink automatically creates links for the URLs found in the text on your website.

So “example.com”, becomes example.com.

With AutoLink installed, you’ll never see text like www.example.com as just text again. Instead it will be replaced with a real link that your visitors can click.

• URLs
• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• @usernames for Twitter, and Instagram
• #hashtags for Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

When a website has a comments section or contains other user-generated content, often users put links in their content which your comment system or app doesn’t recognize. This creates a frustrating experience for content creators who want to link to their content, and for other commenters who want to visit those links.

If handled incorrectly, the process for converting user-generated text into a link can put your site at risk, especially if that process is handled on your server. Since AutoLink runs in the browser, and always sanitizes the text it converts, you can rest easing knowing that no matter what, the worst that a user can do is create a link, nothing more.