{"id":311,"date":"2013-08-21T03:23:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2013-09-02T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T15:26:04","slug":"how-to-modify-get-comment-author-link-open-new-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-modify-get-comment-author-link-open-new-window\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Modify get_comment_author_link to Open Comment Authors Website on new Window"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wordpress-logo-notext-rgb\"<\/a>By default, get_comment_author_link  redirects the user to the site which was entered by comment author when they wrote comment in same window of our site. What if we want this to open on new window?<\/p>\n

Add following code to functions.php in your live theme directory<\/p>\n

\r\n\/\/Display website on new window when readers click Commenter's name \r\nadd_filter( "get_comment_author_link", "pxzoom_modifiy_comment_author_anchor" );\r\nfunction pxzoom_modifiy_comment_author_anchor( $author_link ){\r\n    return str_replace( "<a", "<a target='_blank'", $author_link );\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By default, get_comment_author_link  redirects the user to the site which was entered by comment author when they wrote comment in same window of our site. What if we want this to open on new window? Add following code to functions.php in your live theme directory \/\/Display website on new window when readers click Commenter’s name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[54,5],"tags":[55,6],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code-snippet","category-wordpress","tag-code-snippet-2","tag-wordpress-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-51","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":259,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/flickr-badges-open-new-window-jquery-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":311,"position":0},"title":"Flickr Badges Open New Window jQuery way","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"October 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently added a Flickr Badge to a site and really loved everything about it except that there was no way to have it open the photos in a new window when they were clicked Flickr badge looked like the following - Username [php]