How to make My Social Network Widget in WordPress open links in a new window

To make changes to your wordpress widget to open links in a new window:

Standard WordPress Social Widget

Go to your FTP and navigate to /wp-content/themes/YourThemeName/includes/widgets/ and make a backup of “my-social-widget.php”
Copy the file to your computer and edit it with notepad or any editor

Add target=”_blank” (Click on image below to see sample”)