If I have an External link at the top of the page say to Yahoo story, it opens beautiful. If I scroll to the bottom of the page click Load More and proceed to click on a link of the next 20 stories that just loaded, none of those stories will open in new window.
The plugin only opens external links in a new window, not all links. Links back to your site all open normally. The buddypress “load more” is done with javascript, and by design the plugin does not do anything to javascript links.
I am running a buddypress a social network. When clicking open in new window everything works wonderful. When scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking Load More, everything that is loaded after the original page’s does not open in a new window.
The program is automatic using javascript. It opens EXTERNAL links in a new window. It will not change links, such as links to images on your site.
If you have a link on your site to https://www.google.com it will open that in a new window. If you have a link to something on your site, it will not open in a new window.
There is an option in the beta test version of the plugin to open JPG, GIF, etc files in a new window. You can download that version at https://www.blogseye.com/bet-test-plugins
I’m placing images and wanting to have them open in new windows when clicked.
I could not figure out how to do this and then saw your plugin. I installed it and activated it but I have no idea where I put the relevant information. Do you have any screenshots, etc.
Been working on this for hours. Also tried replacing images from library and adding a href into html. I hit the green checkmark but it’s not saving.
Like the WP back end but am very frustrated – this is my business.
My plugin works by changing the “target=” value using javascript. Some other program is intercepting the click and sending it somewhere. If you have a sample of a page that is doing it, please let me know and I can debug the page.
The new URL is opening in the current window AND in a new window. It’s not just your plugin. This happened with another one as well. Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks in advance.
When the plugin is loaded it sees that you are doing it from https://www.kitchensdior.com.au, but the link is from kitchensdior.com.au. This is an external website.
To make matters worse, you have an htaccess that redirects everything to www.
If you want to use www as the main subdomain you must change all of you links to www. This makes sense in many ways, especially for SEO. Google will by default see these as two separate sites. You want to have only one site.
I just installed and activated your “Open in New Window” plugin and it works fine for external links.
But the problem is that now my home button and a few of the other buttons in my menu across the top are also opening in a new window. Can you please help me fix this?
I released another version. This does not update the title parameter of the link tag, if there is an image in the link. The title is displayed when you hover over the image.
By the way, titles are a big deal in SEO so you should tweak your theme and give all the image links, like the banner, a title parameter. It will display when someone hovers over the image, but it is also used by the search engines as link keywords if there is no text. This is very important when you use image links anywhere.
Thanks for all you do. I installed 1.8 of your open in new window plugin; however, it was doing something funky. Whenever I hovered over a menu link or the masthead image, it would pop up some gray boxes. With menu items, the box would say the name of the menu item. With the masthead image, it would have a large gray box saying randomizemastheadimage or something. I disabled all plugins and pinpointed this plugin as the culprit. I would love to keep using the plugin; however, the gray boxes obstructed the view of menu items, especially branched menu items. Just thought I’d bring it to your attention.
Ron,
If javascript writes new content to the page, the plugin has already finished and will not recognize the new content and can’t handle it.
The program looks for links once, when the page is first loaded. After that it does not see any new links added to the page.
If I have an External link at the top of the page say to Yahoo story, it opens beautiful. If I scroll to the bottom of the page click Load More and proceed to click on a link of the next 20 stories that just loaded, none of those stories will open in new window.
The plugin only opens external links in a new window, not all links. Links back to your site all open normally. The buddypress “load more” is done with javascript, and by design the plugin does not do anything to javascript links.
Keith
I am running a buddypress a social network. When clicking open in new window everything works wonderful. When scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking Load More, everything that is loaded after the original page’s does not open in a new window.
There must be a plugin that does this. You would have to have a plugin that opens a page that “frames” the new page. My plugin does not do this.
Keith
how i can open external link in new windows contain my header and footer
The program is automatic using javascript. It opens EXTERNAL links in a new window. It will not change links, such as links to images on your site.
If you have a link on your site to https://www.google.com it will open that in a new window. If you have a link to something on your site, it will not open in a new window.
There is an option in the beta test version of the plugin to open JPG, GIF, etc files in a new window. You can download that version at https://www.blogseye.com/bet-test-plugins
Keith
I’m new to wordpress after hand coding.
I’m placing images and wanting to have them open in new windows when clicked.
I could not figure out how to do this and then saw your plugin. I installed it and activated it but I have no idea where I put the relevant information. Do you have any screenshots, etc.
Been working on this for hours. Also tried replacing images from library and adding a href into html. I hit the green checkmark but it’s not saving.
Like the WP back end but am very frustrated – this is my business.
Thanks.
My plugin works by changing the “target=” value using javascript. Some other program is intercepting the click and sending it somewhere. If you have a sample of a page that is doing it, please let me know and I can debug the page.
Keith
The new URL is opening in the current window AND in a new window. It’s not just your plugin. This happened with another one as well. Any idea what could be causing this? Thanks in advance.
Hi Keith,
Just used your plugin. Works great. Thanks alot. I will recommend your work.
Cheers, Mike
Thanks
Thank you, Keith! I just installed and activated your “Open in New Window” plugin and it works beautifully.
Efraim
Thanks for the fast response Keith!
The issue has been resolved.
Thanks again!
Richard,
When the plugin is loaded it sees that you are doing it from https://www.kitchensdior.com.au, but the link is from kitchensdior.com.au. This is an external website.
To make matters worse, you have an htaccess that redirects everything to www.
If you want to use www as the main subdomain you must change all of you links to www. This makes sense in many ways, especially for SEO. Google will by default see these as two separate sites. You want to have only one site.
Keith
Hi Keith,
I just installed and activated your “Open in New Window” plugin and it works fine for external links.
But the problem is that now my home button and a few of the other buttons in my menu across the top are also opening in a new window. Can you please help me fix this?
Thank You for your efforts
Richard
I released another version. This does not update the title parameter of the link tag, if there is an image in the link. The title is displayed when you hover over the image.
By the way, titles are a big deal in SEO so you should tweak your theme and give all the image links, like the banner, a title parameter. It will display when someone hovers over the image, but it is also used by the search engines as link keywords if there is no text. This is very important when you use image links anywhere.
Keith
Hi there,
Thanks for all you do. I installed 1.8 of your open in new window plugin; however, it was doing something funky. Whenever I hovered over a menu link or the masthead image, it would pop up some gray boxes. With menu items, the box would say the name of the menu item. With the masthead image, it would have a large gray box saying randomizemastheadimage or something. I disabled all plugins and pinpointed this plugin as the culprit. I would love to keep using the plugin; however, the gray boxes obstructed the view of menu items, especially branched menu items. Just thought I’d bring it to your attention.