Automattic / Automattic/jetpack
Add rel="noopener" to links with target="_blank"
Open
[Pri] Low
[Type] Good First Bug
Enhancement
General
Good For Community
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 1.8k
- Forks
- 898
- Avg merge
- 1d 18h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 774
Description
#### Steps to reproduce the issue
Check website with Google Lighthouse
#### What I expected
Best practice compliant links
#### What happened instead
External links opened in new tab without the rel="noopener" attribute
Contributor guide
Research direction
No file or test is named in the issue. Start by searching the Jetpack codebase for external links using target="_blank", then inspect the surrounding rendering or template entry points. Check the affected links with Google Lighthouse and confirm they include rel="noopener".
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- frontend, security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100