Why the RSS widget doesn't open new tabs ?

• 

  gaietangoffi · Member · May 11, 2013 at 3:53 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Hi there !
  I was wondering why the RSS widget doesn’t redirect the user on a new tag when one clicks on one of the RSS posts ? The Twitter widget does, but the RSS widget doesn’t.
  As a consequence, the user has to exit the blog and come back (if one ever does), which isn’t very convenient.
  Is there something that could be done ?
  Thank you for everything,
  GG

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  timethief · Member · May 11, 2013 at 3:54 pm

  • Copy link

  Why would they exit the site when we can open the link in another tab?

• 

  gaietangoffi · Member · May 11, 2013 at 4:05 pm

  • Copy link

  I must apologize for not making myself clear. I’ll try to give another shot…

  When the user clicks on a link in the RSS widget, WordPress doesn’t automatically open a new tab to display the content of the external URL.

  On the contrary, the external URL is being displayed in the same tab – and therefore the user exits the WordPress blog.

  Is that any better ?

• 

  timethief · Member · May 11, 2013 at 4:12 pm

  • Copy link

  I understood you the first time. Previous to the introduction of tabbed browsing this was significant. Now it is not. There is no way to change the widget.

• 

  gaietangoffi · Member · May 11, 2013 at 4:14 pm

  • Copy link

  Alright. Too bad.
  Thank you anyway

• 

  timethief · Member · May 11, 2013 at 4:14 pm

  • Copy link

  To open links in a new window in the Text (HTML) editor in posts and pages (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>
  However, that cannot be done when you use the RSS widget.