Easy External Links
Take control of external links in WordPress posts, pages & comments. Insert rel=external nofollow and target=_blank to all your external links.
5(16 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Easy External Links is a WordPress seo plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 16 reviews. It has been downloaded 27K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
5/516 reviews
300active installs
27K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Easy External Links is a SEO friendly, external link handler for WordPress.
The current aim of Easy External Links is to standardize the format of external links and create consistent on-page SEO.
Features
- Open external links in a new tab or current tab
- Domain Filtering
- Show icon next to external link (100 icons to chose from)
- External image hosting support
- Add rel=”external nofollow” to external links
- Add title attribute to external links (uses to the text of the link)
- Add target=”_blank” to comment links (rel=”external nofollow” coming soon)
- Add target=”_blank” to external links in excerpts
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Ratings & Reviews
516 reviews
5 ★
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.4.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
= 2.2
Preserve class attribute on internal and whitelist URLs
Fixes strpos issue
= 2.0
Removed PHP short tags from all PHP scripts
Added nonce to POST calls to prevent unauthorized access
sanitize_text_field() added to the title shortcode on output
sanitize_text_field() callback added to all register_setting() calls
Added URL whitelist functionality
1.9.6.2
Fixed issue with internal tags
Contributors
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