Byline link opening in new window

ronald73 · #1 May 5, 2009, 04:21 AM

Hi all,

I have a website with lots of posts imported from other sites through rss. In the byline I have a link to the original author, using %author-link%. When you click the link it opens in the same window and so the visitor is gone. How do I make the link open in a new window?

Flynn · #2 May 5, 2009, 08:29 PM

You#d have to edit bfa_postinfo.php for that

Replace

PHP Code:


			
// Author website link
if (strpos($postinfo_string,'%author-link%')!==FALSE) {
ob_start(); the_author_link(); $author_link = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean();
$postinfo = str_replace("%author-link%", $author_link, $postinfo);
}

with

PHP Code:


			
// Author website link
if (strpos($postinfo_string,'%author-link%')!==FALSE) {
ob_start(); 
if (get_the_author_url()) {
    echo '<a target="_new" href="' . get_the_author_url() . 
    '" title="' . sprintf(__("Visit the website of %s"), get_the_author()) . 
    '" rel="external">' . get_the_author() . '</a>';
} else {
    the_author();
}
$author_link = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean();
$postinfo = str_replace("%author-link%", $author_link, $postinfo);
}

ronald73 · #3 May 6, 2009, 02:55 AM

Thanks, but I'm using the latest version of atahualpa, but the code you suggest is nowhere to be found in bfa_postinfo.php.
Even the word 'website' isn't in the code, and I've also searched for 'if (strpos($postinfo_string,'%author-link%')!==FALSE)' but it's not there.
So for now, this doesn't work.

Update: it does work! I just found out there are 2 versions of bfa_postinfo.php

Thanks!