phone number - How to create clickable telephone link with WordPress Custom Links?

Question

I am using WordPress custom links and I need to create clickable links for phone numbers. I have never had a problem doing this in HTML by using the following: <a href="tel:2065221677">(206) 522-1677</a>. But WordPress obviously has a mind of it's own, changes code, and my link does not open with my iPhone.

I found this post where someone had a similar issue and I tried the jQuery script but it doesn't work when I click on the link. I get an error: Authentication required, wanting a user name and password. I believe this code would work if it were clickable not onload. Using "phone" as a CSS class is great also.

Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

I hope you guys aren't suggesting changing the core or theme files. Much better to bundle this functionality into a plugin like this one http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/telephone-number-linker/