popuplinks() │ WP 0.71

Deprecated since 4.5.0. It is no longer supported and may be removed in future releases. It is recommended to replace this function with the same one.

Adds target="_blank" and rel="external" to links so that they open in a new window.

The comment text in the popup should be passed through this filter (function).

No Hooks.

Returns

String.

Usage

<?php popuplinks( $text ) ?>

$text(string) (required): Text in which regular links should be replaced with links to open in a new window.

Examples

#1 Demo

$text = "Sample text for the popuplinks function that 
replaces the <a href='http://domen.ru'>link</a> in the text with one, 
but in external attributes."

echo popuplinks( $text );

the link from this example would be like this:

<a href='http://domen.ru' target='_blank' rel='external'>link</a>

Changelog

Since 0.71	Introduced.
Deprecated since	4.5.0

`popuplinks() popuplinks` code ^{WP 7.0}

wp-includes/deprecated.php

function popuplinks( $text ) {
	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '4.5.0' );
	$text = preg_replace('/<a (.+?)>/i', "<a $1 target='_blank' rel='external'>", $text);
	return $text;
}