How to Fix Skype Overwriting Phone Numbers in WordPress Themes

Last updated Jul 10, 2019

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.

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.

Fix Skype Overwriting Phone Numbers