Getting the Twitter Sidebar Widget to Open Links In a New Window

[nabiscuit 0]

Pretty much what the subject says. Thanks for all your past help! Site came out great! www.thenatureofexistence.com Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[Andrew 207]

hmmm... could be tough. Somehow the `target="_blank"` attribute needs to be added to these links. Do you feel comfortable editing the plugin code?

[nabiscuit 0]

I do feel comfortable doing so. As long you tell me where it is. The plugin doesn't show up on my plugin list.

[nabiscuit 0]

!?!?

[Andrew 207]

ok open: "core" - "plugins" - "twitter.php" in a text editor. In this file look for `

[nabiscuit 0]

Okay... I tried it out. I got it to work on the twitter plugin on the feature page but once I tried to add the targets on the sidebar widget... my whole site went down. so i reverted everything back - and now the link discoveries in the twitter sidebar widget aren't formatting correctly. any help please? http://thenatureofexistence.com/ http://thenatureofexistence.com/category/blog/

[cmunns 16]

The link discoveries? You also need to get the sidebar fixed on the home page. I believe you have code for this in previous thread. If not let me know. Roger Nygard...anyone relation to a Will Nygard currently making a living do mathematics in Japan?

[nabiscuit 0]

Yes, you know how if you post a link in your twitter status, the widget will automatically detect it's a link and make the link clickable? If you check out the category/blog, you'll see that the links in the twitter sidebar aren't formatting correctly. I have no idea why it's doing it. And when it comes to the sidebar on the homepage, I just gave up. I think it looks fine and I really can't see myself or the film needing that extra functionality. I have no idea about Will Nygard, but when I go back into work, I'll ask him! Thanks!

[cmunns 16]

I see what you mean now. Try using a twitter update that doesn't link to youtube. There are some weird parameters that seem to be missing and it would help to know if it's just a youtube problem. Also the signup/screenings form on the home page can be changed. The script that your using for that form has a size parameter specified. If you look at the code and change size to 30 it should look much better.

[nabiscuit 0]

cmunns, Okay... I specified the width for the contact form on the front page... I don't know why I did it - but if you wanted me to, it probably was for a good reason (it looked perfect to me). As for the other twitter issue - I'll get Roger to use a url shortener for the youtube links to see if that changes anything. I'll keep you posted. But still - if you could look at the twitter plugin and see exactly where i'm supposed to add the [target="_blank"] I'd appreciate it. I added it to every link in there and it brought the whole site down. So I had to undo it all.

[cmunns 16]

In the twitter.php file look for this code: ` $msg = ''.$msg.''; // Puts a link to the status of each tweet } else { $msg = $msg . ''.$linked.''; // Puts a link to the status of each tweet ` You can see I've added the target=_blank in the code already so you can search for it then add it like i have.

[style 0]

I tried this for PlatformPro but unfortunately this did not work. I found this thread on it at Wordpress.org but am not sure how to implement it: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-twitter-for-wordpress-opening-links-in-new-window

[catrina 103]

Are you familiar with jquery?