How do I open a new window for my sidebar link?

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  warnerdp · Member · Oct 7, 2012 at 2:55 pm

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  I’ve figured out how to open a separate window for a link within a page (I found the box to check), but I haven’t been able to do that for the sidebar link.
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  timethief · Member · Oct 7, 2012 at 3:33 pm

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  I assume you are referring to using a text widget. The easiest approach is to create a draft post and set it up the way you want ie.with links that open in a new window. Then you can copy and paste the code from the Text editor in the draft post into the text widget and delete the draft post.

  See:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/#visual-editor-links

  In the TEXT (html) editor (as well as in text widgets), instead of this:
  <a href="URL HERE">TEXT HERE</a>
  you write this:
  <a href="URL HERE" target="_blank">TEXT HERE</a>