Pi Zi

Hello Nata-lee,

The link (of your example) contains a target="_none". This is not set by the WPEL plugin. The plugin removes this attribute of the link, because it does not work in browsers (and it will open in a new tab).

Maybe the target="_none" is set by another plugin? (fancybox, phpbb)

A workaround could be by using the filter (with a very high priority number):

function external_link_filter($created_link, $original_link, $label, $attrs = array()) {
	// remove target="_none"
	return preg_replace('/\s*target\s*=\s*(["\'])_none\1/', '', $created_link);
}
add_filter('wpel_external_link', 'external_link_filter', <strong>1000000</strong>, 4);

Should be compatible. Did you already cleared the cache? (to be sure it does not show the old page, before activating the plugin)

Yes sorry, I know it’s a late response. I have to do this in my spare free time. Hope you will understand.

And, it is even compatible with 3.8.1 😉

Do you have an example? (url of the site)

New version should be oke.

It’s technical, but the reason was caused by the new parse attributes function. This was nescessary to solve some bugs. Officially attribute values cannot contain < or >.

In your case you could create a workaround by adding this function to the functions.php file in your theme folder:

function external_link_js_template_fix($created_link, $original_link, $label, $attrs = array()) {
    if (isset($attrs['href']) && strpos($attrs['href'], '<%= encodeURIComponent(song.artist.name) %') !== false) {
        $created_link = str_replace('<%= encodeURIComponent(song.artist.name) %', '<%= encodeURIComponent(song.artist.name) %>', $created_link);
    }

    return $created_link;
}
add_filter('wpel_external_link', 'external_link_js_template_fix', 10, 4);

Could you be more specific? On wich page? (which links?)

Like f.e. the links of “Find me on facebook” will not be precessed by the plugin, because it’s an iframe. It’s actually a page from another site (domain). The plugin has only effect on your own pages/content.