Interestingly, many people don’t like that behaviour on that link, but if you insist:
In wp-admin\admin-header.php, line 104 at version 2.8
change from:
<img id="header-logo" src="../wp-includes/images/blank.gif" alt="" width="32" height="32" /> <h1 id="site-heading" <?php echo $title_class ?>><a href="<?php echo trailingslashit( get_bloginfo('url') ); ?>" title="<?php _e('Visit Site') ?>"><span id="site-title"><?php echo $blog_name ?></span> <em id="site-visit-button"><?php _e('Visit Site') ?></em></a></h1>
to:
<img id="header-logo" src="../wp-includes/images/blank.gif" alt="" width="32" height="32" /> <h1 id="site-heading" <?php echo $title_class ?>><a href="<?php echo trailingslashit( get_bloginfo('url') ); ?>" title="<?php _e('Visit Site') ?>" target="_blank"><span id="site-title"><?php echo $blog_name ?></span> <em id="site-visit-button"><?php _e('Visit Site') ?></em></a></h1>
Right click on the Visit Site Link. Select “Open in New window” or “Open in new Tab”.
Firefox – right click > select open in a new tab or window
IE – same procedure.
I’m guessing safari would be a (“control-click? maybe?) to open in a new tab.
Opera would most likely have the same right click context menu allowing you to open the link in a new tab or window.
oop.. sorry, guys! I’m a little slow today!
I think that most “subscribers” to your blog don’t need to stay in the dashboard, therefore they are taken to the site. While Admins & Contributors may want to have the dashboard still open.
Since there should be more subscribers than admins it’s good that it is that way. Of course the only ones that would suggest an alternate now are the people working within WordPress and not the subscribers. If they were to change it then all the subscribers would complain, and there are a lot more of them!
Possibility for a future plugin that detects role and dynamically changes the link? [If user is subscriber send to site, else open new]
I’ve released a newer version of the plugin which features per user options.
