In older versions of WP the checkbox for setting links to “open in a new tab” used to be included in the primary pop-up. It is now about three levels down in the process.
This petition is to have it moved back to the previous position, so it can be easily found and selected without all the additional mouse clicks.
Read-only archive : https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/171/move-open-in-a-new-tab-checkbox-to-the-first-popup
Author : Alan Coggins
Vote count : 7
Status : open
Comments
I would support bringing this small feature back. We have many hosting clients who don’t know where it went, so they go and install some janky plugin that promises to convert all external hyperlinks to open in new windows.
The security concerns are minimal anyways, and I think in WordPress 5+ they automatically add the noopener noreferrer
tags to links anyway…
~ posted by Jesse
This doesn’t improve user experience, forcing links to open in a new tab/window. So it’s unlikely to be considered for core.
This is the proper way to handle it. The decision should always be left up to the user. On Windows, they can Ctrl+click (new tab) or Ctrl+Shift+click (new window).
If you’re compelled to force the decision on the user, you can always add target="_blank" rel="noopener"
to the anchor tag manually.
viktor
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July 11, 2022, 4:16am
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