Extension: Link Events to Website URLs

[Weng]

Hi Help Desk

I’m using the above extension and wondered if there was an easy way to make each link open in a new tab?

Thanks
Weng

[Cliff]

Hi, Weng.

If you’re referring to this extension: https://theeventscalendar.com/extensions/make-event-titles-link-to-the-event-website-url/

Then the answer is no.

You could add your own custom code in addition to this extension to accomplish this though:

https://gist.github.com/cliffordp/3bdd3857f905c0927dc5c5594f97e319

Please let me know how this goes for you.

If it works for you, I can add it to the Extension’s article.

[Weng]

Thanks Cliff, I really appreciate the code. But I didn’t know where to add it. I tried adding it to my theme’s function php and tribe-events -> pro -> photo -> single-event php without any luck.

[Cliff]

Welcome to WordPress customizing!

Best practice for adding custom code (like to implement a PHP snippet to modify The Events Calendar) is to create a functionality plugin, unless it’s something specific to your theme, in which case best practice is to make sure you’re using a child theme, then add the customization to your child theme’s functions.php file (not single-event.php).

Note that the opening <?php tag should be removed from our snippets when adding to your plugin file or your functions.php file (it’s only added to enable syntax highlighting)… unless the snippet is a complete file replacement.

I hope this information helps!

[Weng]

Hi Cliff

I tried both approaches (functionality plugin and functions.php) but couldn’t get either to achieve what I want.

By doing the former, I got the code appearing at the top of the web page itself. By doing the latter, there was no apparent effect.

Thanks again for your help. I guess the extension as it is will have to do.

Cheers
Weng

[Cliff]

Sorry to hear that.

If you send me the plugin you created where it appeared on your page, I might be able to take a look and help figure it out for you.

[Weng]

Hi Cliff

Thanks, you’ve already done more than I would have expected. I tried to upload the php file using the upload below but I get an error message (‘you can’t upload files of this type’).

Happy for you to close this if it’s going beyond what help desk can reasonably do.

Cheers
Weng

[Cliff]

Put the .php file in a .zip and try.

[Weng]

Hi Cliff

I’ve found a plugin that does the trick (Open External Links in a New Window).

Thanks again for all your help.

Weng

[Cliff]

Sounds good. Thanks for the update.

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