“External Links” mambot
Tags: joomla, mambot, external links
I have outlined a mambot which adds the text “target=_blank” to the external links in a content. Thus, all the links pointing to external sites will be opened in a new window.
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May 27th, 2007 at 7:23 am
thank you very much. I have been looking for this about an year!. Pl keep up good job..
May 27th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Good!
I really want to find a plugin to solve problem with rss news. I think it will help me. Thank you very much
May 27th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Unfortunately, as I know, content doesn’t pass through mambots when exported as rss feed (at least in the case of the standard com_rss component).
May 31st, 2007 at 3:45 am
Excellent tool, thanks for your great bot!
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Thanks for the tool, we’ve s-bookmarked you.
September 9th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Hi There!
This mambot is working fine in Internet explorer. In Firefox this mambot is not working! Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how i can fix this?
thnx for your help!
September 10th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Jeroen:
Most likely, it is because “target” attribute is deprecated. So, Firefox can treat such links in different ways (details - http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/03/target-blank/).
September 25th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I like it.
Thanks good programmer.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:51 am
thank you for this.
i appreciate it.
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March 9th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Would be also not difficult, but useful to mark all external links as nofollow-links if needed. I didn’t try it yet, but maybe it is an idea for an additional parameter in the backend configuration.
nofollow: yes () no ()