Social Media Icons/Links

You need to add https:// to each profile URL or it will not link properly.
We don’t feel that browser behavior should be forced on your visitors, and web users know how to use the back button, so that will not be updated.

If you choose to add target=”_blank” to the social URL’s you should do the modifications in a custom template and not modify the core plugin files.

You can place a custom version of archive-aeprofiles.php and single-aeprofiles.php in your theme’s root folder and the plugin will use those template files instead.

You’ll also need to create a custom version of the do_agent_details() function to add the target=”_blank” and place that in your theme’s functions.php file. Then replace that function in each of the previously mentioned template files.

Thanks for the https:// tip.
I think I was probably following the “tip” for the website url not having the prefix.