GrandSlambert

<p>Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals.</p>
<h4>Usage Notice</h4>
<p>This plugin does not, and cannot replace the existing RSS Widget. Once you install, activate, and configure this plugin you must go to your Widgets page and either replace existing RSS widgets with the new widget, or add new Better RSS Widgets.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add title or post tags to the feed URL in the shortcode.</li>
<li>Excerpt length can be set in both the widget and the shortcode.</li>
<li>Limit the number of characters to display for the title of the post.</li>
<li>Add text or html before the list of posts on widgets.</li>
<li>Shortcode to allow embedding RSS feeds into posts and pages.</li>
<li>Choose whether to cache the RSS feed and set the cache duration per feed, defaults to 3600 seconds (1 hour).</li>
<li>Option to display the post time.</li>
<li>Allows multiple widgets each with different settings.</li>
<li>Adds the link target to both the RSS Title and all articles.</li>
<li>Default settings screen allows you to decide what defaults will appear when adding a new widget.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<p>This plugin includes the following translations. Translations listed with no translator were created by the plugin developer using Google Translate. If you can improve these, you can get your name listed here!</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
</ul>


Better RSS Widget

Replacement for the built in RSS widget that adds an optional link target, shortcode, and page conditionals.

billknechtel

<p>There is a little gotcha when you’re writing standards compliant code, but still want off-site links to open in new windows. XHTML 1.0 Strict deprecated the use of the “target” attribute. Early versions of HTML5 also had this deprecation, but have since brought it back. In either case, making sure the target attribute is set on every off-site link can be tedious.</p>
<h4>Enter jQuery.autoTarget</h4>
<p>Instead of going through the tedium of ensuring your target attributes are set, this jQuery plugin automatically scans all the links on a page, and sets the attribute for you (target=”_blank”) if the href attributes domain isn’t the same as the domain the page is served from. Just to sweeten the deal, it also sets any offsite link to have a class of “external-link”, so you can style offsite links in the manner of your choice. Easy-peasy. And it only weighs in at 272 bytes!</p>
<h4>No-clobber</h4>
<p>Just in case, the script does not touch any link that already has a target set, so if you’re already doing something with the target attribute, this won’t clobber your extant work.</p>
<h4>Use of jQuery.autoTarget in Non-WordPress Sites</h4>
<p>If you need it, my jQuery plugin sans wordpress plugin is available at https://github.com/wknechtel/jQuery.autoTarget</p>


jQuery.autoTarget for WordPress

Simply, automatically and standards-compliantly make any external link open in a new window/tab.

Better RSS Widget vs jQuery.autoTarget for WordPress