WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Image widget - want link to open in new window http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-widget-want-link-to-open-in-new-window WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Image widget - want link to open in new window en Tue, 21 May 2013 13:15:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 tanyameyers on "Image widget - want link to open in new window" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-widget-want-link-to-open-in-new-window#post-904745 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:38:58 +0000 tanyameyers 904745@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks and thanks for the code "cheat".

]]> timethief on "Image widget - want link to open in new window" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-widget-want-link-to-open-in-new-window#post-904724 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:20:16 +0000 timethief 904724@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is not option provided in the image widget to do that > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/image-widget/
If you are not skilled at coding then you can create a draft post and create the link in it. Switch to the HTML editor, copy the code and paste it into a text widget. Then delete the draft post. Alternatively see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/codes-useful-for-text-widgets/

]]> tanyameyers on "Image widget - want link to open in new window" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-widget-want-link-to-open-in-new-window#post-904719 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:11:20 +0000 tanyameyers 904719@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks....but I'm still confused.

I'm looking at the support document you referenced, and it shows me how to get to the html editor -- but it is only for website pages - not widgets.

I added the text widget, but then couldn't go any farther b/c I couldn't find the html for widgets.

]]> timethief on "Image widget - want link to open in new window" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-widget-want-link-to-open-in-new-window#post-904713 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:00:23 +0000 timethief 904713@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You will have to use a text widget.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/#visual-editor-links
In the html editor (as well as in text widgets), instead of this:
<a href="URL HERE">TEXT HERE</a>
you write this:
<a href="URL HERE" target="_blank">TEXT HERE</a>

]]> tanyameyers on "Image widget - want link to open in new window" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-widget-want-link-to-open-in-new-window#post-904708 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:56:19 +0000 tanyameyers 904708@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

I'm trying to get an image widget (right hand sidebar, w/ colourful tree) to open in a new window when someone clicks on it - rather than taking you away from the page you're on.

I know it's in the html and think I should be inserting --- target="_blank">janindaltonmarketing.com somewhere....but don't know where, or how to do this.

Thanks, in advance, for the technical help!

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