diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index bea9a07f5b..faf7eb6042 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -976,7 +976,8 @@ function bbcode($Text, $preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fa
 	// if the HTML is used to generate plain text, then don't do this search, but replace all URL of that kind to text
 //	if ($simplehtml != 7) {
 		if (!$forplaintext) {
-			$Text = preg_replace("/([^\]\='".'"'."]|^)(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\%\$\!\+\,]+)/ism", '$1<a href="$2" target="_blank">$2</a>', $Text);
+			//$Text = preg_replace("/([^\]\='".'"'."]|^)(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\%\$\!\+\,]+)/ism", '$1<a href="$2" target="_blank">$2</a>', $Text);
+			$Text = preg_replace("/([^\]\='".'"'."]|^)(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\%\$\!\+\,]+)/ism", '$1[url]$2[/url]', $Text);
 		} else {
 			$Text = preg_replace("(\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\])ism", " $1 ", $Text);
 			$Text = preg_replace_callback("&\[url=([^\[\]]*)\]\[img\](.*)\[\/img\]\[\/url\]&Usi", 'bb_RemovePictureLinks', $Text);