View Site link shouldn't force link to open in a new window

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

View Site link in admin area opens the link in a new tab/window. kind of annoying... :(

I'm assuming there was some kind of discussion regarding this. I'm opening a ticket in case there wasn't. I personally vote for reverting to the previous (same window/tab) behavior.

[markjaquith]

I'm also not a fan of things deciding that they know how you want to manage your tabs/windows.

[christhomson]

I agree, it's really not a great idea having it open in a new window/tab. If the user wants to open it in a new window/tab, they could use the keyboard shortcut (or right clicking) to do that.

[ryan]

Changed in [7230] by that Matt guy. Assigning to him.

[MichaelH]

Reasons for not opening View Site in a new window/new tab:

• It's not done that before.

• No other link in the admin UI works like that. Wouldn't you want other links like to Help, Forums, WordPress, Documentation, Feedback, as well as links to Plugin authors, Theme authors, and any other links to Codex, to react in the same manner?

• So you View Site, don't like what you see, and press the Site Admin link and then you've got two tabs in the admin section.

[Viper007Bond]

Agreed. If I want it to open in a new tab, I can middle click or shift click.

Really annoying.

[helmi]

Blogs (and isn't WordPress a synonym for that *g*) started to revert this silly _blank culture and should definitely not stop it like this.

++ for a no-target-link for "view site"

[matt]

There are other places in WP that do this, bonus points if you find them.

[DD32]

There are other places in WP that do this, bonus points if you find them.

Oh, C'mon, give us a challenge!

grep -r -s target= * | grep -v .svn | grep -v wp-content

..Maybe even tack on | grep -v /js/ :P

But yes indeed, While i usually use that link to open in a background tab, I manually specify for it to do that, i expect it to load in the current window otherwise..

[Viper007Bond]

I dunno about any others (I can't grep), but there's a patch to remove the "View Site" one.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

will this get fixed before the actual release? it's really annoying... :(

[Viper007Bond]

Found another one

[markjaquith]

If not on general principle, then for this specific case: unlike a Preview link, the clicking of the "View Site" link implies a relatively permanent exit from the admin (transition from managing your site to using it), and thus it is reasonable for it to open in the same window/tab.

[markjaquith]

(In [7522]) Consensus is to make "Visit Site" links open in the same tab/window. fixes #6163