I can’t understand why the _blank doesn’t work for you. I don’t think it has anything to do with templates, its an attribute for the <a> tag and should be working. Of course it depends on what setting the user has for opening new windows, but it should work.
The link for the post about applying _blank attribute is:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-hungryfeed-apply-custom-classesattributes-to-parsed-elements
There you can find 2 solutions, depending (I think, but maybe I’m wrong as I’m not an experienced programmer) on version of jquery you use. verysimple suggested loading version 1.7.1 directly, I have version 1.6.1 already loaded, and I found out that I had to use slightly different syntax in the calls. Use whatever works for your case.
The final code that I inserted in HungryFEED’s Custom CSS Code (for use with jquery 1.6.1) is
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('.hungryfeed_item a').attr("target", "_blank");
$('.hungryfeed_item a').addClass("fancybox iframe {width:930,height:680}");
$('.hungryfeed_item a').fancybox({
'centerOnScroll' : 'true',
'content':$(this).attr('src')
});
});
</script>
<style>
The reverse <style> declaration is important as HungryFEED wraps the code of custom css in style tags, so we keep them unbroken. I checked it on IE, FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari.
It applies the _blank attribute to hungyfeed <a> tags.
Also, if you have Easy Fancybox installed (and configured), it adds the class to open them in iframe, and the parameters for the iframe call. Keep in mind that some sites don’t allow their content to be loaded in frames, so do a check first if you use it. In the case of fancybox you must insert the call to it, as the class addition must come before that, and when we use hungryfeed custom css solution it happens in the reverse order.
Using this jquery technique you can change the attributes and class of all elements that hungryfeed creates. So, the only limit is our imagination.
I hope you make it work in the end, if you have any issues post again and I will try to help if I can. Be warned that I don’t check my emails too often these days. As you said, I enabled multitasking mode also this period π