external link do nothing

Resolved enricobt
(@enricobt)

2 years, 1 month ago

Hello,
I would need to disable specific old links so that when the user clicks on them, the link does nothing.
I changed your action example and it works fine by replacing all my “//old-site.it” URLs with “#” but then I should add a new attribute, for example, ‘onclick=”return false;”‘, that would allow “do nothing” effect.
How can I do this and change this action code?
Please see my code below.
Thank you
Enrico
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add_action( ‘wpel_link’, function ( $link ) {
// check if link is an external links
if ( $link->is_external() ) {
// get current url
$url = $link->get_attr( ‘href’ );
if ( strpos($url,’//my-old-site.it/’ ) !== false ) {
$redirect_url = “#”;
$link->set_attr( ‘href’, $redirect_url );

// echo ‘onclick=”return false;”‘;

}
}
}, 10, 1 );`

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Plugin Author

(@talextech)

Hi,

There are many ways to disable a link but to keep it closer to what you started with, just replace the href value of “#” with “javascript:void(0)”

So the full code would be:

add_action( 'wpel_link', function ( $link ) {
    // check if link is an external links
    if ( $link->is_external() ) {
    // get current url
        $url = $link->get_attr( 'href' );
        if ( strpos($url,'//my-old-site.it/') !== false ) {
            $redirect_url = 'javascript:void(0)';
            $link->set_attr( 'href', $redirect_url );        
        }
    }
}, 10, 1 );

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