Simple, but *invalid* as XHTML:
<a href="site.com/etc" target="_blank">link text</a>
Less simple, won’t work if Javascript is off, but valid as XHTML:
<a href="site.com/etc" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blank');return false;">link text</a>
Even less simple (but cool!) Javascript method:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/standards-compliant-world
And finally, to add one of these automatically, look at my Add Link Attribute plugin:
http://guff.szub.net/add-link-attribute
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bi11i
(@bi11i)
wow, thanks!
well, so after posting and screwing around with wordpress a little more, i noticed there’s a setting for allowing the links (at least the links via the menu bar) to open in a new window.
is there a simple php or template that i could edit that would tell wordpress to open all of my existing posted links to open in a new window? i know the code to use – just don’t know where exactly.
thanks!
Where is the setting for allowing the links to open in a new window ?
When editing individual links in the Links Manager look for the “Target” setting.
Kafkaesqui, I downloaded your plugin, but to be honest, I’m having some trouble using it. All I want to do with it is add an attribute to links within posts (target=blank, obviously). Can you make it easy (er) for me?
kjda: You could always just add them in each post…
The add_link_attr() function “wraps” around any WordPress functions/tags you want it to perform on, so for post content, you replace
<?php the_content(); ?>
in your templates with
<?php add_link_attr('content', '', 'target="blank"'); ?>
If you use the ‘more_link_text’ parameter for the_content(), then do something like:
<?php add_link_attr('content', 'Continue reading', 'target="blank"'); ?>
However, note that Add Link Attribute has no way of ignoring the more link tag when it’s used, so it too would receive your attribute.
