Easy External Links WordPress Plugin
Take control of external links in WordPress posts, pages & comments. Insert `rel=external nofollow` and `target=_blank` to all your external links
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
article
blog
comments
custom post type
external
external link
external-links
google
link-target
links
new tab
new window
nofollow
page
pages
plugin
Post
posts
rel
search engine optimization
seo
target
url
_blank
Sites running Easy External Links, click to open one
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Usage of Easy External Links over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 180 to 121 — down 59 (-32.8%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 121 | -11 |
| June 2024 | 132 | -1 |
| May 2024 | 133 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 133 | -2 |
| March 2024 | 135 | +1 |
| February 2024 | 134 | -8 |
| January 2024 | 142 | -6 |
| December 2023 | 148 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 148 | +1 |
| October 2023 | 147 | -6 |
| September 2023 | 153 | -14 |
| August 2023 | 167 | -10 |
| July 2023 | 177 | -3 |
| June 2023 | 180 | — |
Themes used with Easy External Links
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Pinboard |
| 3 | Generatepress |
| 4 | Newspaper |
| 5 | Bridge |
| 6 | Pinboard-child |
| 7 | Flashgamer |
| 8 | Dynamico |
| 9 | Euh |
| 10 | X |
| 11 | Birdhouse |
| 12 | Customizr |
| 13 | Twentythirteen |
| 14 | Twentytwelve |
| 15 | Giornalismo |
| 16 | Foodiepro |
| 17 | Jarida |
| 18 | Avada |
| 19 | Twentyfourteen |
| 20 | Nsm-seating |
Sites running Easy External Links
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