Sorry, that is probably not a solution to your problem but I would take in consideration that this could probably be penalized by search engines like Google. Their general stance to interrupting user behaviour is strict in general.
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Under Settings -> Security you could enable "Warn users if a link in a post will cause them to leave the forum" which will drop them on an intermediary page. There isn't built-in countdown functionality.
Hi @Linc This functionality doesn't work for me. I enabled "Warn users if a link..", there is a string $Configuration['Garden']['Format']['WarnLeaving'] = '1'; in my config.php. But all outer links are opened without any warning 🙃. May be I missed something?
Guys, somebody have this functionality working as expected?
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Sorry, that is probably not a solution to your problem but I would take in consideration that this could probably be penalized by search engines like Google. Their general stance to interrupting user behaviour is strict in general.
Under Settings -> Security you could enable "Warn users if a link in a post will cause them to leave the forum" which will drop them on an intermediary page. There isn't built-in countdown functionality.
Thanks. Where can i edit that popup?
Hi @Linc This functionality doesn't work for me. I enabled "Warn users if a link..", there is a string $Configuration['Garden']['Format']['WarnLeaving'] = '1'; in my config.php. But all outer links are opened without any warning 🙃. May be I missed something?
Guys, somebody have this functionality working as expected?
"Warn users.. " not working.
This will open external links in a new tab
https://github.com/vanilla/addons/tree/master/plugins/LinkTypes
(Not what you are asking/looking for but still a nice feature)
Thanks @Kaspar for reply. Good idea but LinkTypes doesn't work for me. 😶
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Depending on your host system the difference capital letters in foldername and non-capital letter in the defined key in addon.json could be the issue
https://github.com/vanilla/addons/blob/51c270a983249956f562fd8613b29d19bfa6341e/plugins/LinkTypes/addon.json#L5
Try changing it to
"key": "LinkTypes",Don't forgot to clear cache