All links in my widgets point to my own site

https://validator.w3.org/checklink?check=Check&hide_type=all&summary=on&uri=https://substantialmale.com/
shows some errors. It takes a couple of minutes to check the links.

Yeah – that’s the problem – my code is correct, but WP is adding my own site in front of the target url and I don’t know how to override that.

It looks like an extra set of quotes are getting in there… In your example above the wrong type of double quote is being used. Perhaps when you are copying in your html link it is copying wrong, then the widget is adding proper quotes around it.

Try pasting this in instead:

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/substantial.male">Like Me on Facebook</a>

If that doesn’t work, you can also try without the quotes at all, it won’t be 100% valid, but will probably work despite.

<a href=https://www.facebook.com/substantial.male>Like Me on Facebook</a>

When you look at the source you see
<a href="”https://www.facebook.com/substantial.male“">Like Me on Facebook</a>

The double quotes sometimes show up when you cut and paste a url.

@jackreichert

I should refresh my screen after taking a break!

Thank you so much. That was the issue and it’s working perfectly now.

Resolved