[Plugin: Image Widget] Linking Image to an external URL

prefix the url with https://

https://www.externalurl.com is not a valid url.
https://www.externalurl.com is a valid url.

if my answer works for you, i’d greatly appreciate it if you could close this thread. thanks!

Hi Peter,
I seem to be having the same issue. I have tried to link my image to a page on my site. I have used the entire url copied directly from the url bar and it always sends me right back to the upload site, not the page I want. when I examine your answer above I am not seeing the difference between the valid and invalid examples you give. They look exactly the same to me. Can you help> thanks. Kathy Kirk

Hi Kathy. For some reason the forum has automatically corrected my example. Let me try again:

invalid: www.externalurl.com
valid: https://www.externalurl.com

If you don’t prefix with https:// then the browser assumes the url is a page on your site and will effectively link to: https://yoursite.com/www.externalurl.com

arg!!! It auto corrected again. Let me try this another way.

invalid: www . externalurl . com
valid: http : // www . externalurl . com

but without the weird spacing.