How To Automatically Open WordPress Links In New Tabs

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Looking to automatically open WordPress links in new tabs using the_content()? All you may need is to copy and paste this code into your functions.php file.

Automatically opening the_content() links in new tabs

To automatically open links in new tabs when using the_content(), simply  copy and paste in the code below into your WordPress theme’s functions.php file.

function automatic_add_target_blank( $content ) {
     $post_string = $content;
     $post_string = str_replace( '<a', '<a target="_blank"', $post_string );
     return $post_string;
}

add_filter( 'the_content', 'automatic_add_target_blank' );

Automatic new tab links for blog posts only

To only allow the plugin to work for single-blog posts, simply update the above code with an if statement to detect for singular posts, as per below.

function automatic_target_blank( $content ) {
     $post_string = $content;
     if ( is_singular( 'post' ) ) {
          $post_string = str_replace( '<a', '<a target="_blank"', $post_string );
     }
     return $post_string;
}

add_filter( 'the_content', 'automatic_add_target_blank' );