{"id":5523,"date":"2022-05-11T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/internal-links-opening-in-a-new-tab-doh\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T21:17:08","slug":"internal-links-opening-in-a-new-tab-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/internal-links-opening-in-a-new-tab-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal links opening in a new tab, d’oh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not want to add a plugin to have external links open in a new tab (links to Patreon, Ko-fi, Twitter, etc.) so I added the "base target="_blank" HTML to my WordPress header.<\/p>\n

So now, external links open in new tabs, which is what I wanted, but internal links are doing it too<\/em>. Ugh.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how to fix it yet, which is enraging, but I will keep pounding away at the problem.<\/p>\n

If all else fails, I guess I’ll have to install a plugin, but I would prefer not to have to do that. As it is understood that the more third-party plugins get installed, the more chance of vulnerabilities being installed as well.<\/p>\n

sigh<\/em> This week has been bloody murder on my nerves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did not want to add a plugin to have external links open in a new tab (links to Patreon, Ko-fi, Twitter, etc.) so I added the "base target="_blank" HTML to my WordPress header. So now, external links open in new tabs, which is what I wanted, but internal links are doing it too. Ugh.…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> Internal links opening in a new tab, d’oh<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1r5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1358,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/tweetbutton\/","url_meta":{"origin":5523,"position":0},"title":"Adding Shortlinks to WordPress Tweet Button Through Jetpack plugin","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"[maj update=\"02\/08\/12\"]Totally got Jossed, now the Twitter links look worse than ever. 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