{"id":19040361,"date":"2026-10-08T22:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/feature-request-control-external-product-link-target\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:28:55","slug":"feature-request-control-external-product-link-target","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/feature-request-control-external-product-link-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Request: Control External Product Link Target"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, <strong>External\/Affiliate product<\/strong> buttons open URLs in a new tab by default.<br>This behavior makes sense for affiliate links but isn&#8217;t always desirable for products linking to booking forms, registration pages, or other destinations within the same website.<br>Could you add a simple checkbox beneath the Product URL field:<br><strong>\u2611 Open product link in a new tab<\/strong><br>Ideally, the checkbox would be enabled by default to preserve existing behavior, but store owners could disable it when appropriate.<br>This would eliminate the need for custom code or template overrides for a fairly common use case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19040361","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-external-products","topic-tag-feature-request","topic-tag-usability"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19040361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19040361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19040361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}