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External Links – nofollow, noopener & new window

Description

Manage all external and internal links on your site. Control icons, nofollow, noopener, ugc (User Generated Content), sponsored and if links open in new window or new tab.

WP Links plugin was completely rebuilt in v2 and has lots of new features, like noopener, ugc and sponsored values for rel; font icons, internal links options and full WPMU support.

Check every single link on your site! See if it is broken or not, if it is redirected, what is the target and rel attribute and what page exactly it is linking to. This feature is a part of the WP Links PRO plugin.

After activating you can set all options for external and internal links on the plugin's admin page. The plugin filters the output and changes the links on the fly. The real contents will not be changed in the database.

WP External Links does not track, collect or process any user data. Based on that, we feel it is GDPR compatible.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free External Links – nofollow, noopener & new window plugin.

External Links

Nofollow

Noopener

Screenshots

FAQ

Just use the option “Skip pages or posts” under the tab “Exceptions”.

For a more custom approach use the action wpel_apply_settings:
add_action( ‘wpel_apply_settings’, function () {
global $post;
$ignored_post_ids = array( 1, 2, 4 );

    if ( in_array( $post->ID, $ignored_post_ids ) ) {         return false;     }      return true; }, 10 );

Using this filter you can ignore any request, like certain category, archive etcetera.

Create redirect by using the wpel_link action. Add some code to functions.php of your theme, like:

add_action( 'wpel_link', function ( $link ) {     // check if link is an external links     if ( $link->is_external() ) {         // get current url         $url = $link->get_attr( 'href' );          // set redirect url         $redirect_url = '//somedom.com?url='. urlencode( $url );         $link->set_attr( 'href', $redirect_url );     } }, 10, 1 );

By adding this JavaScript code to your site:

jQuery(function ($) {     $('a[data-wpel-link="external"]').click(function (e) {         // open link in popup window         window.open($(this).attr('href'), '_blank', 'width=800, height=600');          // stop default and other behaviour         e.preventDefault();         e.stopImmediatePropagation();     }); });

See more information on the window.open() method.

Add this JavaScript code to your site:

jQuery(function ($) {     $('a[data-wpel-link="external"]').click(function (e) {         if (!confirm('Are you sure you want to open this link?')) {             // cancelled             e.preventDefault();             e.stopImmediatePropagation();         }     }); });

Use some JavaScript code for opening PDF files in a new window:

jQuery(function ($) {     $('a[href$=".pdf"]').prop('target', '_blank'); });

Use some CSS style to change the icon for secure sites using https:

a[href^="https"] .wpel-icon:before {   content: "\f023" !important; }

The code \f023 refers to a dashicon or font awesome icon.

Contributors and developers

“External Links – nofollow, noopener & new window” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

WebFactory

Pro version Free Version Docs

WPS

6.65

Average

Pro version

Ratings

4.3 out of 5 | 247

Version

2.63

Last updated

3 months ago

Active installations

90,000+

WordPress version

6.9.4 or higher

PHP version

7.2 or higher

Languages

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External Links – nofollow, noopener & new window

Description

Other Notable Features

Screenshots

FAQ

Contributors and developers

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Reviews (247)

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WPS

6.65

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