Rel=noopener problem with external links!

Lynne Level 1

July 20, 2017, 5:04 am

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Rel=noopener problem with external links!

Can anyone please advise me? I have been selling guest posts and sponsored posts on my website which includes do follow backlinks, but now I have had feedback from a customer that the links have "rel=noopener" in the html code.

I went and had a look and he was right. I deleted it, saved it and checked and it was all fine so I let my customer know and he said it is STILL there. So I went to have a look and he was right. If I delete it and save it in text mode it appears that it is resolved, but then if I click on visual mode and then go back to text mode it is back.

I did a Google search and apparently this is happening with the latest versions of Wordpress. It is only happened when I made the link to open in a new tab and I don't want external links opening in the same tab.

Here is a video I found on Youtube about it. The remedy she gives is apparently not recommended for your website so what exactly should I be doing?

For now I am making the links to open in the same tab just so I can get my orders done, but I need a solution for this if anyone can advise?

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cmoneyspinner

Thanks for asking this question because now I have learned something about “rel=noopener”. Based on research, which I'm sure you already did on your own, there doesn't not seem to a fix … yet. But they're working on it!

If you remove the ' target="_blank" ' that's likely your best temporary solution for now. Incredible! The WordPress update was an effort to provide security protection for your website, but it's causing unexpected difficulties.

I apologize that I can't advise you. But I'm grateful you put on a spotlight on this issue. Double thanks for asking this question because I had no idea!!

9 years ago

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anwebservices

It’s a security thing.

If you want to disable the new setting, you can override it with this code in your functions.php (theme file) or in a plugin.

add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init','tinymce_allow_unsafe_link_target');function tinymce_allow_unsafe_link_target( $mceInit ) {
   $mceInit['allow_unsafe_link_target']=true;
   return $mceInit;
}
 

9 years ago

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Corzhens

Do you mean to say that Wordpress has a sort of default in making the external links not a do-follow? If that is the case then Wordpress should let us know because in your experience it may have caused disaster to your business when numerous clients would complain about the no-follow of your links that affected their backlinks. Thanks for sharing your experience. It will benefit most of us here.

7 years ago

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SEOClerks

Rel=noopener problem with external links!

Rel=noopener problem with external links!

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