Custom URL is automatically adding site domain in front of it

  • tackticalmarketing

    (@tackticalmarketing)


    3 years ago

    All of my custom links associated with images or buttons on my featured projects page is automatically adding my website domain to the beginning of them.

    For example:
    I set a custom URL Link to both buttons and images to be – www.samplelink.com – however, when I publish the page, all of the custom URL links are automatically adding my website domain so they now look like the following:

    https://mycompanyaddress.com/www.samplelink.com

    It is only happening on specific pages that have parent links to them. All other pages, the custom URL links are working fine.

    I am using Google Chrome – my WordPress theme that is being used is: THEMECO PRO.

    There has to be a permalink condition set in place that I am not able to navigate/find. Any recommendations?

    • This topic was modified 3 years ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • Thread Starter tackticalmarketing

    (@tackticalmarketing)

    I found a workaround by removing: www. from my custom url link and just using: https://samplelink.com – this has corrected the issue. However, it’s still weird to me that custom URL link, when I input the link as www. that it automatically adds my domain before it.

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    It’s not the ‘www.’ part that’s the problem. You need to make sure that you have the ‘https://’ part at the start of the URL (this may also be ‘https://’ if you’re not running a secure site). Without that, WordPress will assume that it’s a local link, and add the sites main URL to the front of it, as you saw at the start.

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