how to treat mailto: as an external link

  • Resolved tecnicaweb

    (@tecnicaweb)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    The plugin treat mailto: links as intenal, adding data-wpel-link=”internal”

    But I want mailto: links to open in a new tab, not replacing the current tab content with gmail or outlook or other web pages.

    The only setting I find is in the “Exceptions” settings, where I can choose whether mailto: must be skipped or not – but none for set mailto: as external…

    Can this be done with come code in functions.php?

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Alexandru Tapuleasa

    (@talextech)

    Hi,

    We don’t have an option to set mailto links as external in WP External Links free. In PRO you could create a Link Rule and force them to be set as external if you really want to, but in practice it would not actually do anything as the System/Browser controls what happens when you click mailto links. So each visitor will have a different experience when they click mailto links. For some gmail will open, for others Outlook, Thunderbird etc. whatever they have set as mail client.

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