Solved Footer links rendering with href='#'

Hello All!

I've searched around the forums and googled for a solution, but I'm unable to find one.

I'm facing a problem on a client site with all of the links inside the global footer rendering with an href of '#' instead of how they are configured. All of the links are configured via the Divi Theme Builder (see attached screenshot), but the rendered HTML on the site comes out as '<a href="#">Services</a>', for the attached example:



This happens for all links in the global footer regardless of whether they are defined as a Page link or as a text URL.

Other links on the site (including in the global header) work as expected.

We are currently on Wordpress 6.6.2 with PHP 8.1:

$ php --version
PHP 8.1.27 (cli) (built: Jan 31 2024 10:22:13) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.1.27, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v8.1.27, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies


Thank you in advance for your time and attention.

Aaron

 

Your suggestion set me on the path to figuring out the issue.

For those who come after me with the same problem:

It looks like the original designer BOTH created the Text object content as a link AND set a Page Link under the Link settings for the Text object. I removed the link in the content portion of the text object, returning it to just plain text, and kept the Page link settings, and everything seems to be working now.

Thank you!