Some external links do not open in a new navigation tab - Bug Reports - wpForo 2.0

RE: Some external links do not open in a new navigation tab

Sofy — Thu, 14 May 2020 10:37:18 +0000

@hector,

Please follow this discussion:

https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/open-all-external-links-in-a-new-navigation-tab/#post-32358

RE: Some external links do not open in a new navigation tab

hector — Wed, 13 May 2020 18:24:53 +0000

Hello again.

I have a forum for testing, and without touching the editor put a URL directly in the topic, and as expected this URL opens in the same browser tab

See topic: https://artesanosdelsoftware.info/foro-principal/php/

This installation has the Twenty Sixteen theme (https://wordpress.org/themes/twentysixteen/) and the wpForo plugin, there is no other plugin installed.

Any idea why this is happening?

RE: Some external links do not open in a new navigation tab

Robert — Wed, 13 May 2020 06:59:25 +0000

And it comes with the target="_blank" attribute. So all is done by wpForo automatically if you just put a URL. But if you copy some link and past in the editor it doesn't do any replace. So I want to ask you , how do you create those links? Leave some direct link to that post.

RE: Some external links do not open in a new navigation tab

Robert — Wed, 13 May 2020 06:57:11 +0000

@hector

How to you put links in topics. If you put a URL it'll automatically replaced with the target="_blank" attribute. As you can see here I'm putting an external link in my post:

https://www.google.com/

RE: Some external links do not open in a new navigation tab

hector — Tue, 12 May 2020 20:14:44 +0000

When a user posts external links in the topics or replies, it is generally not noticed if the attribute target = "true" or target = "blank"

These attributes should be placed on all links, regardless of whether or not they are logged in.

I still can't solve my problem ...

RE: Some external links do not open in a new navigation tab

CrisW — Sun, 10 May 2020 04:37:25 +0000

Hi @hector,

Links usually open in a new tab (at least for my wpforo installation, and also here on this forum).

Sample link:

https://wpforo.com/community/general-forums-bug-reports/some-external-links-do-not-open-in-a-new-navigation-tab/

There is a box "Open link in a new box" unchecked (that you can check and uncheck). Like in the attached screenshot.

If you look at the {;} source code, you will see this code for the above sample, like so:

https://wpforo.com/community/general-forums-bug-reports/some-external-links-do-not-open-in-a-new-navigation-tab/

If you check the "Open link in a new box", like in the sample link below (which should open in a new tab) the source code should look like this:

https://wpforo.com/community/general-forums-bug-reports/some-external-links-do-not-open-in-a-new-navigation-tab/

If for some reason, some links does not open for you on your forum, just add a little snippet of code:

target="blank" after the href part of the link.  Just add "space" then target="blank"

of the link that you want to open in a new tab.

This should also open in a new tab:

https://wpforo.com/community/general-forums-bug-reports/some-external-links-do-not-open-in-a-new-navigation-tab/

And this is the code:

https://wpforo.com/community/general-forums-bug-reports/some-external-links-do-not-open-in-a-new-navigation-tab/

You might also have a plugin that is conflicting with the way the links on wpforo opens. Because in my own installation, the links always open in a new tab. Maybe you just need to see if the specific link that you want to open in a new tab, has the "Open link in a new box" checked.

Good luck and God bless you! :-)

20200509_OpenLinkInAnewTab.jpg

Some external links do not open in a new navigation tab

hector — Fri, 08 May 2020 17:32:19 +0000

Hello community.

I come from this topic: https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/open-all-external-links-in-a-new-navigation-tab/

And I still have not solved it, some external links open in the same navigation tab

Any definitive solution?

A greeting.