title: Wordpress: Links to External URLs Adds site URL as a Prefix
body: <p>I am having trouble figuring out why my site is adding a url to external links. I am creating social icons for the footer and notice this happening. I am just placing the code into a text widget. You can <a href="https://www.healncure.com/" rel="nofollow">view my site</a> and scroll to the footer to see the issue.</p>
  
  <p>Below is my HTML coding</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a class="social" href=”https://www.facebook.com/healncure” target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.healncure.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/facebook-bw.jpg" /&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.healncure.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/facebook-hover.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If you want to see the <a href="http://codepen.io/CookieFresh89/pen/KgluE" rel="nofollow">code</a> for the social icons to check the coding. I tried searching to see if anyone else is having this problem and only found one other person but they just had incomplete code.</p>
  
  <p>This all started happening after I got my site ssl certified. I am not sure if this has anything to do with it. Maybe if some sort of setting was changed. If it is trying to redirect the url.</p>
  
  <p>I have already tried deactivating all the plugins.</p>