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WordPress Blog Comments URL Right Click Popup Check Prevent Default Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

We’re coming back to the previous WordPress<\/a> administrator Comment moderation section URL Popup Window Checker functionality last talked about with WordPress Blog Comments URL Right Click Popup Check Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We were finding before this Javascript code fix<\/font> …<\/p>\n

<?php
\n
\n\tsetTimeout(function(){
\n\t if (document.body.innerHTML.indexOf('Comments<\/h1>') != -1) {
\n\t var als=document.getElementsByTagName('a');
\n\t for (var ials=0; ials<als.length; ials++) {
\n\t if (('' + als[ials].href).indexOf('http') == 0 && ('' + als[ials].href).replace('wordpress.org','rjmprogramming.com.au').indexOf('rjmprogramming.com.au') == -1) {
\n\t als[ials].oncontextmenu=function(evt){ evt.stopPropagation(); evt.preventDefault(); if (woowoo) { if (!woowoo.closed) { !woowoo.close(); woowoo=null; } } woowoo=<\/font>window.open(evt.target.href, '_blank', 'left=' + eval(-480 + eval('' + screen.width)) + ',top=0,width=500,height=200'); setTimeout(function(){ woowoo.focus(); }, 500); };
\n\t als[ials].ontouchend=function(evt){ evt.stopPropagation(); evt.preventDefault(); if (woowoo) { if (!woowoo.closed) { !woowoo.close(); woowoo=null; } } woowoo=window.open(evt.target.href, '_blank', 'left=' + eval(-480 + eval('' + screen.width)) + ',top=0,width=500,height=200'); setTimeout(function(){ woowoo.focus(); }, 500); };
\n\t }
\n\t }
\n\t }
\n\t}, 6000);
\n<\/code>
\n?><\/p>\n

… in admin-header.php that popup windows were being created but immediately falling behind the main WordPress blog “admin” section Comments section webpage window, annoyingly. Our investigations tracked it down to the right click “default behaviour” forcing the popup window out of view.<\/p>\n

The remedy being? Anyone, anyone<\/a>?
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… finally, yes Nicola<\/a> … are you saying “Preve Fountain” …
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Alas, no … and it’s not Spanish Steps or Pantheon or Colosseum or Trevi Fountain or Piazza Venezia or Saint Peter’s Square either, if that helps … Anyone else<\/a>?
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… yes, Audrey<\/a>?
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… you’re saying “The Mouth of Truth”<\/a>?
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… no, sorry, no doubt it was on the tip of your collective tongues, when we say it’s …<\/p>\n


\nevent.preve<\/font>ntDefault<\/a>();
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\nAaaahhhh\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… thank you, Sage<\/a> … preventing that right click menu from appearing, and so not compromising window focus web browser rendering. We do very little WordPress administration on mobile, but just in case, we added an ontouchend event (usually happening at the finish of a gesture) mimicking of the non-mobile right click logic, for good measure.<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant WordPress Blog Comments URL Right Click Popup Check Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"WordPress<\/a>

WordPress Blog Comments URL Right Click Popup Check Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

In the past we have only mildly changed the administration section of our TwentyTen themed WordPress.org<\/sub> blog (you are currently reading)<\/font> here at RJM Programming, and some of that involved new WordPress plugins, as you can read a bit about with WordPress Blog Data URI in Post Plugin Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We maintain that blog within an “admin” part of the WordPress blog, and any changes we’d put in a “dess<\/strike><\/a>ert island wish list” usually just absorb and move on, but we thought we’d improve on …<\/p>\n


\nWordPress comment moderation
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… by allowing myself (well, thanks awfully, I don’t really know what to say)<\/font> the chance to …<\/p>\n