Tag Archives: WordPress

WordPress Open Link in New Window Plugin

Many of the sites I create are done in WordPress, it simply works! That said, one of my peeves over the years has been the need to manually edit each link to open in a new window so users don’t loose the page they are on. This week I finally decided to use this as an excuse to learn about developing WordPress PlugIns and created my own for this purpose. Things went very well and I plan on continuing development and adding other features that I feel can help me as a developer and author.

As such, I thought I’d share it here. (Yes, I will be looking into publishing it through the WordPress.org portal)

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WordPress Site Not displaying properly in Internet Explorer (IE)

I had a client contact me today, informing me that their site wasn’t displaying properly in IE10, not like it used to.  The calendar (monthly and upcoming events) were not displaying properly and the media library was coming up blank!?  Why?!

After doing some basic troubleshooting, I was able to determine it wasn’t a IE10 issue, but rather a IE issue.  IE’s Compatibility View appears to break things.  It would seem that it is critical to have the Compatibility View disabled when on WordPress sites to get the proper visualization.

Case and Point:
With Compatibility View Enabled

WordPress Calendar with IE Compatibility Enabled

With Compatibility View Disabled

WordPress Calendar with IE Compatibility Disabled

One more reason not to used internet Explorer altogether.  Better off with an alternate browser such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, …

This also worries me because I cannot control how general web surfers have their browser configured, so how many visitors to this site, or any other site, aren’t getting the proper user experience?