Published on 6 March 2014

Using Skype links in Wordpress menus

Have you ever tried to include Skype links in a Wordpress menu? If the answer is yes then you know that it's not something that will work by default. Wordpress sanitation function will prevent it from working.

However you can use the following workaround in your functions.php:

function custom_allow_skype_protocol( $protocols ){
    $protocols[] = 'skype';
    return $protocols;
}
add_filter( 'kses_allowed_protocols' , 'custom_allow_skype_protocol' );

Now you can happily add your Skype link to any of your Wordpress menus.

Wordpress Skype