Wordpress prefixing all embedded URLs within the post with base website URL

Question

For example, in my post I want to direct the readers to my LinkedIn page, I do the following:

    Please join our <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/mygroup">LinkedIn group</a>

What this does in reality is create a URL pointing to:

    http://www.mywebsite.com/%22http://www.linkedin.com/groups/mygroup/%22

I have a feeling that the issue is related to URL rewrite but could not find anything concrete with that.

Kindly help.

Answer 1

Try it out with just one quote:

Please join our <a href='http://www.linkedin.com/groups/mygroup'>LinkedIn group</a>

I've had this issue before and found something in the url rewrite, but have to do a search for it. Avoiding double quotes did the trick for me.