Customize External Links and add Icon

This plugin adds and removes link relations such as nofollow and noreferrer to your external links. Furthermore, indication of external links by adding a custom icon to the link text. This plugin also adds automatically that external links will be opended in an new tab.

• Add rel=nofollow for all the external links of your posts / pages / menus
• Add target=_blank for all the external links of your posts / pages / menus
• Exclude domains from addding rel=nofollow for the selected external links
• Remove rel=noreferrer for all the external links of your posts / pages
• Activate custom icon to indicate external links
• Choose from different icons to mark links
• Superscript Icon or regular size
• Add custom CSS class to icon

The plugin is written by Janine, and is based on CyberNetikz Nofollow for external links plugin.

From your WordPress dashboard

1. Visit 'Plugins > Add New'.
2. Search for 'Customize External Links'.
3. Activate Customize External Links from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org

1. Download Customize External Links plugin.
2. Upload the 'customize-external-links' directory to your '/wp-content/plugins/' directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc...)
3. Activate Customize External Links from your Plugins page.

Once Activated

1. Visit WordPress dashboard sidebar in 'Settings > Customize External Links'.
2. Customize settings based on your needs.

2.1

• ready for WP 6.3
• minor bugfixes
• Fontawesome resource updated
• added rate link

2.0

• added noreferrer
• fixed internal links starting with /#
• ready for WP 6.2

1.9.2

• fixed bugs in debug mode
• ready for wp 6.0

1.9

• fixed bugs in debug mode
• ready for wp 5.9

1.8

• fixed internal links starting with #
• added manual field for icon/text
• ready for wp 5.8

1.7 ready for wp 5.7 1.6 minor bug fix 1.5 icon won't be added to internal (anchor) links anymore 1.4 minor css adjustments 1.3 Tested with Wordpress Wordpress 5.3 1.2 Minor bug fixes 1.1 Minor bug fixes 1.0 Initial release