{"id":396,"date":"2015-02-10T04:18:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T04:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-02-10T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T04:22:19","slug":"wordpress-comments-links-open-new-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/wordpress-comments-links-open-new-window\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress comments links open in new window"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"commentslinksnewwindow\"<\/a>We would like links in any comments open in new window instead of same window because we still want to read more in that page. WordPress comments links open in same window as default action, adding following code snippet could make these links open in new window instead, just add the code into functions.php of your WordPress theme<\/strong>. That’s it.<\/p>\n

\r\n\r\nfunction comment_links_in_new_tab($text) {\r\n$return = str_replace('<a', '<a target="_blank"', $text);\r\nreturn $return;\r\n}\r\nadd_filter('get_comment_author_link', 'comment_links_in_new_tab');\r\nadd_filter('comment_text', 'comment_links_in_new_tab');\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We would like links in any comments open in new window instead of same window because we still want to read more in that page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"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":[5],"tags":[145,146,147,6],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-comments","tag-links","tag-new-window","tag-wordpress-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/commentslinksnewwindow.jpg?fit=808%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-6o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":311,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-modify-get-comment-author-link-open-new-window\/","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":0},"title":"How to Modify get_comment_author_link to Open Comment Authors Website on new Window","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"August 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"By default, get_comment_author_link \u00a0redirects 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 [php] \/\/Display website on new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Code Snippet"","block_context":{"text":"Code Snippet","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/category\/code-snippet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"wordpress-logo-notext-rgb","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wordpress-logo-notext-rgb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":259,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/flickr-badges-open-new-window-jquery-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":1},"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]