Title: Blank Target Replacement
Author: Nicki Faulk
Published: <strong>June 7, 2008</strong>
Last modified: April 27, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Blank Target Replacement

 By [Nicki Faulk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nitallica/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/blank-target-replacement.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/blank-target-replacement/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/blank-target-replacement/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/blank-target-replacement/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/blank-target-replacement/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blank-target-replacement/)

## Description

This plugin marks all links in posts as ‘external’ and implements a small bit of
javascript to open links in new windows. Inspired by Mdkart’s Add Lightbox plugin.

## Installation

 1. Upload the blank-target-replace folder to WordPress plugins directory and activate
    on the Plugins page in WP-Admin
 2. That’s it!

## FAQ

I don’t have any yet, why don’t you ask me?

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Blank Target Replacement” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Nicki Faulk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nitallica/)

[Translate “Blank Target Replacement” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/blank-target-replacement)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blank-target-replacement/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/blank-target-replacement/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/blank-target-replacement/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/blank-target-replacement/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.2.24**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blank-target-replacement/)
 * Tags
 * [external](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/external/)[links](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/links/)
   [rel](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rel/)[target](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/target/)
   [_blank](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/_blank/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/blank-target-replacement/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Nicki Faulk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nitallica/)

## Support

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