[Support request] Links no longer open external links in new tab

[Ashley]

Hi. I recently switched from Divi to GeneratePress. When I had Divi, all external links in a post opened in a new tab. Switching to GeneratePress seems to have reset all my links and external links now open in the same window, which is not good.

I have more than 500 posts on my website so I don’t want to through and manually change all the links. Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

[Leo]

Hi there,

GP definitely doesn’t alter your existing content/HTML when the theme is activated – we would get in a lot of trouble for that 🙂

I’ve actually explained it in your previous topic here:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/switching-to-generatepress-broke-tons-of-my-links/#post-1024632

It’s possible that Divi is running a script to make all the links open in a new tab.

I found a few solutions that seem promising on Google:
https://html.com/attributes/a-target/
https://bogdandragomir.com/blog/2016/12/add-target-_blank-attribute-external-anchors-page-javascript-jquery-one-single-line/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/804256/how-do-i-add-target-blank-to-a-link-within-a-specified-div

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