Often, when I write a blog post, I will reference another site and will link to it. I know I manually add the code target=_blank to have the link open in a new browswer window. However, is there a way to set it within wordpress so that by default all links open in target=_blank rather then have to type this in manually for each link? I am using wordpress 2.51 Thank you
I think when you add a link in the Visual Editor of Wordpress, you can easily choose whether or not you want the link to appear in a new window. That way, you don't need to manually enter code. However, I don't think there are any automatic things to do that yet.
There might be an easy way you could incorporate one line of JavaScript into your site's template to simply open EVERY link in a new window. However, for relative links, I'm not sure that would be a good idea. Digging around (Google Search), I found the following link to a JS file that you could configure with minimal effort to accomplish what you need. Open offsite links in new window
It looks like my Visual Editor is working correctly because when I load the Write Post page, at the bottom left of the screen is an error on page message and when you doubleclick it, it says "tinyMCE is undefined line 83" I also have WP installed locally on my pc as localhost and I can access the visual editor and see the option you mention. I just don't have it in my domain that is hosted by a third party. Not sure why I get that message?
Ive just glanced at this thread http://wordpress.org/support/topic/148796 not sure if it will sort your problem, but near to the bottom of the thread, the thread starter is talking of disabling gzip, it seems, a number of people have experienced this or similar probs on their servers. Let me know if thats not the same problem.