Curiousity with links in discussions in forums that are embedded in Wordpress

peregrine

if I put this link in a comment it opens a new tab as expected.

type of headphones

if I click on the discussion topic in the discussions page the discussion topic stays embedded.

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However,

If I put the same link in a discussion (as the first item) - when you click on the discussion topic in the discussions page it opens a new tab for the discussion.

can anybody replicate this, if you have a wordpress site.

the code to insert in discussion

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones#Types" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">type of headphones</a>

peregrine

@Todd,

Is there a way in buttonbar or in the embed version to process links the same way. It seems that using the buttonbar url vs. just posting the links have different side effects when embedded.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones#Types" rel="nofollow" >type of headphones</a>

vs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones#Types

and if you add target="_blank" in the url when you start a discussion, it does some weird things when embedded in wordpress. As noted above.

Surely there is someone with a wordpress forum with 3 minutes, who can test the above.

peregrine

here is what i found out

if I post only this in the discussion no problem.

with blank in front.

<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones#Types" rel="nofollow"   >type of headphones</a>


with blank after

if I post only this line in discussion "new topic" - then clicking the title of the discussion will open a new page.

<a  href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones#Types" rel="nofollow"   target="_blank" >type of headphones</a>

go figure...

peregrine

Thanks much shadowdare for your help testing.

Shadowdare's site did not experience any of the problems I mentioned.

It appears the problem is site specific glitch. - so just ignore this thread.

peregrine

It appears this mysterious behavior was caused by the interaction of the discussion tooltips plugin. Who wrote that damn thing . aside from that the plugin doesn't appear to cause any other issues.

Shadowdare

You're welcome.

Here's a workaround for this issue with the discussion tooltips plugin that also strips BBCode tags if people use them in their posts:

$bodyLine = $Sender->EventArguments['Discussion']->Body; $formline = strip_tags(str_replace(array('[',']'), array('<','>'), $bodyLine)); $sline = substr($formline, 0, 220);

peregrine

thx. I added your workaround for BBCode tags to the notes on the plugin.

I also added a change to notes to prevent the problem I experienced when using html tags.

Shadowdare

No problem. I've tested my workaround and it works, and also fixes the target="_blank" URL problem.