No More Opening Links in New Windows : alexking.org

I finally got around to changing all of my target="_blank" links to rel="external". Using a similar technique to the previous database cleanup, I ran these queries through PHPMyAdmin.

Fix Posts:

UPDATE wp_posts

SET post_content =

REPLACE(post_content

  ,' target="_blank"'

  ,' rel="external"'

  );

Fix Comments:

UPDATE wp_comments

SET comment_content =

REPLACE(comment_content

  ,' target="_blank"'

  ,''

  );

Now the only time links will open in new windows (well from the blog content at least) is from the comment pop-up windows.

I’ve been meaning to do this for ages but I just haven’t had sufficient roundtuit. I kept up the _blank charade so I could do this SQL update and hit everything consistently. Anyway, it’s done now. 🙂