Image widget – want link to open in new window

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  tanyameyers · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 4:56 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m trying to get an image widget (right hand sidebar, w/ colourful tree) to open in a new window when someone clicks on it – rather than taking you away from the page you’re on.

  I know it’s in the html and think I should be inserting — target=”_blank”>janindaltonmarketing.com somewhere….but don’t know where, or how to do this.

  Thanks, in advance, for the technical help!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 5:00 pm

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  You will have to use a text widget.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/#visual-editor-links
  In the 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>

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  tanyameyers · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 5:11 pm

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  Thanks….but I’m still confused.

  I’m looking at the support document you referenced, and it shows me how to get to the html editor — but it is only for website pages – not widgets.

  I added the text widget, but then couldn’t go any farther b/c I couldn’t find the html for widgets.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 5:20 pm

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  There is not option provided in the image widget to do that > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/image-widget/
  If you are not skilled at coding then you can create a draft post and create the link in it. Switch to the HTML editor, copy the code and paste it into a text widget. Then delete the draft post. Alternatively see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/codes-useful-for-text-widgets/

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  tanyameyers · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 5:38 pm

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  Thanks and thanks for the code “cheat”.