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My apologies Jan if this is not the right place for this, if it’s not, please direct me to the right forum. I have a client that love this particular theme, however the social media icons in the top corner of it completely take a visitor off of her site, she want it to open to another window. I know it’s a simple addon of target = “_blank” to it, but for the life of me, I can’t get it to work. Here’s the code from the theme’s file, can you please tell me exactly where and how it should go…

<?php
/*
** Template to Render Social Icons on Top Bar
*/
for ($i = 1; $i < 8; $i++) : 
	$social = esc_attr(get_theme_mod('plum_social_'.$i));
	if ( ($social != 'none') && ($social != '') ) : ?>
	<a>"><i class="fa fa-<?php echo $social; ?>"></i></a>
	<?php endif;
endfor; ?>

• This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata). Reason: put code in backticks

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