How to resize target=”_blank”

First off let me just state before I’m slammed about forcing links to open in a new window…

This is a very specific case, so read the full post before stating;
1. “You shouldn’t use target=”_blank” it’s not valid”
2. “You shouldn’t force a new window to open, you should let the visitor decide.”

The company I work has been maintaining the website for http://www.eem.org since 97 as a charitable service. We have been and will continue to do this for the forseable future. However recently the eem folks requested some features which weren’t possible with straight HTML. So I was asked to transition the site to a CMS.

Although WP was always my first choice as it has a shorter learning curve than any other package I’ve used (I knew this would be important because the eem folks need something simple), it was not the first choice of my boss. So I created a basic structure and walked the eemers through the use of Joomla, Geeklog, phpNuke, and Drupal. There were flumexed by all of those. So it was decided that maybe WP was the best choice after all.

I’ve spent the last few weeks working on this. Our servers run off of iis. Which was a challenge to install WP to and get the specific plugins working which would be needed. But that task is accomplished.

And so now I’m going through and moving all of the content from the current eem site into WP. Which is turning into a beating.

So now the background info for the question:

If you go to the current live eem site there is a “directory of churches” link in the left column. (link should be located at http://www.eem.org/church_directory.html (or possibly at http://10.1.9.48/church_directory.html) we’ve got our local DNS server pointing eem.org to my local testbed so I can’t be entirely sure about that). If you click on one of the countries (to get an idea of what I’m talking about pick russia, ukraine, or Yugoslavia) you’ll be taken to the countries specific information and church list page. Click on one of the church names and a new window will be opened.

Grand sum total there are over 600 churches pages which need to pop up in a window.

To save bukoo’s of time, instead of recreating each of these churches I’m maintaining the same functionality and keeping the directory structure for these pages the same.

And now the actual question:

WP is striping out the code for removing the menubar, titlebar, window size, etc… Is there any way to get it to not strip this stuff out? (I’m not using the Rich Text Editor or WYSIWIG).

If there’s not then so be it. I can force each of the pages to resize once they open and then just deal with the menubar, et.al. being visible.

Thanks