https:// being added in front of account names

  • Resolved sleeplessindc

    (@sleeplessindc)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    In a user’s profile, the settings for the Author Bio Box says to just enter the account name and not the full URL for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. which has been done. However, when I ran a link checker on the site, I got a lot of 404 errors for links that don’t exist because https:// is being appended in front of the account name. For one thing, the account name is not a domain name and for another thing, all of those URLs would start with https:// now.
    I can’t figure out where the https:// is coming from. Here is an example of what the source shows in the browser window for the bio icons.

    
<a target="_blank" href="https://baeeorg" class="bio-icon bio-icon-facebook"></a><a target="_blank" href="https://BaeeArtists" class="bio-icon bio-icon-twitter"></a><a target="_blank" href="https://pub/bonnie-driggers/40/57a/4" class="bio-icon bio-icon-linkedin"></a><a target="_blank" href="https://baee0196/" class="bio-icon bio-icon-pinterest"></a>

    What is needed to stop the https:// from being added to the account names?

    Facebook https://baeeorg
    Twitter https://BaeeArtists
    LinkedIn https://pub/
    Pinterest https://baee0196/

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  • Thread Starter sleeplessindc

    (@sleeplessindc)

    I guess I was going by a previous version that said to enter only the username for each account. Something (either in WordPress or the plugin) didn’t work as before and automatically use the appropriate URL so it thought the username URL had to have https:// in front of the usernames to make a complete URL. I experimented and entered the full URLs for each account and now the links are working in the Author Box.

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