There were no new feed items to add. Not True

i’m trying to isolate a possible bug in the most recent update…if you want, here is a link to the previous version

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3132388/wp-rss-multi-importer.zip

Allen,
Thank you for your recent updates. The recent version functions very well. I have found only one issue:
On the “Feed to Post” tab
Target Window (when link clicked, where should it open?) “open in same window” or “open in new window” will only open in the same window, regardless of which is selected.

Thank you.

Not sure this a bug, as you can see here I can change which window opens by selecting the option

https://www.screencast.com/t/z7Cp7UOnI

What I do know, however, is whether this will work or not depends on the browser settings…are you sure your browser isn’t set to open one way or another?

I can look at articles posted some time ago with “Open in New Window” selected and it does open those older posts in a new window/tab. ie https://bd.summit.net/blog/2013/08/networking-sbcs-run-linux-on-multicore-i-mx6-socs/

If you haven’t found this to be an issue with the latest release, then I will look at other possible reasons why the target=”_blank” statement is not functioning.

Not sure what to say..if the hyperlink has target=”_blank” then it should open in a new window (or tab, depending on how your browser works).

The Firefox “Inspector” shows no target=”_blank for links in new posts. So, either the statement wasn’t placed in the page code while posting or it has been removed subsequently. This is why I ask you to be sure that you have found no problem with this feature in “WP RSS Multi Importer”. If not, then I will look elsewhere for something that is removing the target=”_blank statement from posts.

Thank you for your kind assistance.

Follow-up:
If I manually edit a post and add target=”_blank to links, they will open in a new tab/window.

hmm…do you have any plugins that could be doing this…usually its a plugin that is running javascript and changing the hyperlinks.

I have no plugins that have, in the past, caused this problem as links would open in a new window/tab. It is possible that an upgraded plugin may perform differently.

However, I have been looking through import_posts.php and found class=”colorbox”.

if($targetWindow==0){
$openWindow=’class=”colorbox”‘;
}elseif ($targetWindow==1){
$openWindow=’target=_self’;
}else{
$openWindow=’target=_blank”;
}

This seems to be what is rendering:
…

can you show me a url where this is happening on your site?

actually, do you have the option for putting videos into an iframe checked? If so, turn that off and see if you still have the problem.

Yes, I do have the video iframe checked and that works well.

I have commented out $openWindow and placed target=”_blank” directly in import_posts.php as such:

//$myLinkTitle='<a href='.$myLink.' '.$openWindow.'>'.$myTitle.'</a>';  // change how the link opens here

$myLinkTitle='<a href='.$myLink.' target="_blank">'.$myTitle.'</a>';  // change how the link opens here

This now creates posts with the target=”_blank” intact rather than class=”colorbox”

I can keep searching and find the problem, but this fix is working for me.

Is there anything I can do to help?

no..I’ll fix the problem…it’s tricky because this came from the code to allow people to embed videos, so I’ll need to find a way to make both work.

Thank you very much for helping me with WP RSS Multi Importer on . Please let me know if there is anything I can do.

ok..try replacing these two files

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3132388/import_posts.php

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3132388/excerpt_functions.php

I think this should solve the problem..let me know if it doesn’t.