I was looking for a way to change the default setting when adding a link when writing an article and to be honest, the answers here annoyed me enough to reset my password and login to post.
First, the poster didn’t ask for your advice on etiquette, he asked for a solution to his request.
Second, I completely disagree with the suggestions. If I’m reading an article and I want to check out a referenced link, I don’t want to have to use the back button to get back to the article I was reading. In fact, it annoys me when authors make me right click and open a new window. Not only that – if I have a visitor at my page and it’s their first visit – how do I know I’m not losing them forever by sending them off into the internet in the same window? I’d rather give good information, open links in a new window, and give them the opportunity to bookmark my site after reading my article.
Now to answer the question.
https://blog.ffff.ca/2008/12/28/changing-default-link-target-in-wordpress/
kthxbye.
