diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index 3833c55401..39f04aa692 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -854,6 +854,9 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
if ($tryoembed)
$Text = preg_replace_callback("/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism",'tryoembed',$Text);
+ $Text = preg_replace("/([#])\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",
+ '$1$3', $Text);
+
$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", '$1', $Text);
$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '$2', $Text);
//$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", '$2', $Text);