hoping you can help with this conundrum of mine.

I have created a CPT, and am changing the link in the admin list pages for it to be the front-end permalink. What I’d like to do now is change the target to _blank, so it pops open in a new tab.

However, the edit_post_link filter does not appear to be working.

Here is what I currently have:

// swap the link for a #
add_filter( 'get_edit_post_link', function( $_url, $_id, $context ) use( $_pt ) { 
    
    // if it's the alerts post type
    if( get_post_type( $_id ) == $_pt ) {

        // get the frontend permalink to this item
        $_link = get_the_permalink( $_id );

        // return the front-end link
        return $_link; 

    }

    // default to the url
    return $_url;

}, 10, 3 );

add_filter( 'edit_post_link', function( $link ) {

    var_dump("HERE-----------------------------------------------------------------");

    $link = str_replace( '<a ', '<a target="_blank" ', $link );

    return $link;

}, PHP_INT_MAX );

I have also tried the filter like this as well:

add_filter( 'edit_post_link', function( $link, $post_id, $text ) {

    var_dump("HERE-----------------------------------------------------------------");

    $link = str_replace( '<a ', '<a target="_blank" ', $link );

    return $link;

}, 10, 3 );

Neither of these do anything, not even the var_dump shows in wp-admin list page for the CPT. Please do note that I am removing the post_row_actions (well, all except trash) because I am pulling the data for the CPT’s from an API, and I want 0 editting capabilities, and that seemed the most logical route…

Is there another filter that I should be hooking into for this? Or is this something that is truly “broken” in WordPress?