Open aggregator links in new page

  • Hi:

    I’ve been a PowerPress for years (https://www.hablandodetecnologia.com) and this is the second time that I ask about this issue.

    Is there a way to make the links that appear directly below the PowerPress player (iTunes, Android, Stitcher, TuneIn, RSS) open in a new window? There isn’t a setting in the control panel, so maybe there’s a way to hack the code.

    I don’t like the fact that if a listener clicks on one of those links it sends him/her away from my site. It would be better if the link opened on a blank page.

    Can you help?

    Orlando Mergal

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  • Plugin Author Angelo Mandato

    (@amandato)

    Currently no, not without modifying the source code. We would not add such an option as the default since it goes against accessibility standards (We actually used to use the target=”_blank” years ago and had to remove it). We do plan on providing a way to customize the player and links HTML in a special file you save in your theme. When that functionality is available that would be how you can set the target=”_blank” on your own site. The feature is currently planned for PowerPress 9.0 which we do not have prioritized yet, we are still working on version 8.0.

    You are welcome to write your own patch and re-patch the code in PowerPress every time a new release comes out, but that may be tedious. We do our best though to keep updates to a minimum so maybe it’s not that big of a deal.

    One other alternative, you could write a few lines of jQuery to set the target=”_blank” for all links within the PowerPress link classes. I did not test this but it would look something like the following in a document.ready() block of code somewhere in your theme’s header:

    jQuery('.powerpress_links a').attr('target','_blank');

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