drisko

Thanks Oliver. I’m a novice when it comes to web development but I work in IT and I can fumble my way around code a little. I do recall running across something about target=”_blank” being a problem and the recommendation I saw was to make sure to add rel=”noopener”. On line 176 of the display-remote-posts-block.php in added target=”_blank” rel=”noopener” in the anchor and that seems to work. From a UX perspective (which I only have passing familiarity with) we decided to roughly classify links as primary info that people are visiting the site to get and secondary info that we think is interesting but not what people are coming to find. Secondary links (like remote blogs) are set to open in a new tab. Personally I think it would be nice if there was a toggle in the block settings to allow the web developer to choose same window or new tab much how default WordPress settings allow for other types of links. It may not be best practice but I think there’s probably still a time and place to be able to do it. If I knew a little more I might attempt to figure out how to add it in myself as a learning exercise. Since I have a workable solution you can mark as resolved. Thanks again!