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bwp-external-links

Better WordPress External Links

Gives you total control over external links on your website.

external external domains external images external links nofollow
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Open evidence

Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

84 / 101 rows with source links

83.2% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

17 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.96
anonym.to now blacklisted by Google

anonym.to now blacklisted by Google: users show security, bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Select: “External Link Prefix” -> “A Custom URL” and place one of the values above in the “Custom URL prefix” field.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Image link class not added to web pages

Image link class not added to web pages: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
setting a new class for image link – External image links CSS class = imgext-link outputs code as – <a title="Opens new window" href="http://www.sssc.uk.com" target="_blank" class="ext-link" rel="external"><img src="mypic.jpg" alt="mypic" class="alignright"></a> I have tested in different browsers, cleared cache etc but do not get expected – <a title="Opens
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86
Image Links Ignored

Image Links Ignored: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Image Links Ignored On my site, image links seem to be treated just like text links.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Option to include/exclude "Post Type"

Option to include/exclude "Post Type": users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Option to include/exclude "Post Type" Is it possible to make the plugin work for some certain “post types”?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Duplicated rel nofollow

Duplicated rel nofollow: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
My settings: zschocianow.pl/files/Better-WordPress-External-Links.jpeg It would be nice if you could fix it by strpos or something.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Open external links in iFrame

Open external links in iFrame: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Open external links in iFrame Hi there , I a searching for function to open external links in iFrame instead of processing them through out page Can you help / suggest a plugin for this issue ?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Add external class to links *already* using a redirect plugin

Add external class to links *already* using a redirect plugin: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Add external class to links *already* using a redirect plugin Hello, Firstly, thanks for the great plugin.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.79
[Bug] Filter priority too low

[Bug] Filter priority too low: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
[Bug] Filter priority too low I just noticed that this issue is still not fixed in the plugin core: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-better-wordpress-external-links-bugfix-priority-too-low Would be great if it could be included in the next version.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Any update soon?

Any update soon?: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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I love this plugin and it still works great on two websites of mine but I’m a little bit worried that it wasn’t updated for 5 years now.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
How do you setup this on a MultiSite?

How do you setup this on a MultiSite?: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
How do you setup this on a MultiSite?

Competitor Context

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Easy External Links praise owner · intel 73.0 · weakness 63.8
praise owner
stale update history 14 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor SEO drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1 source 2
External URL Featured Image praise owner · intel 72.8 · weakness 64.4
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Multiple external product URLs for WooCommerce praise owner · intel 70.9 · weakness 61.7
praise owner
stale update history 9 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor woo failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
source 1 source 2
WP Autoset Featured Image Plus praise owner · intel 70.2 · weakness 59.6
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Cloak Affiliate Links for WooCommerce praise owner · intel 63.8 · weakness 47.0
praise owner
13 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor redirect drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
source 1 source 2
WC External Variations praise owner · intel 60.3 · weakness 43.6
praise owner
22 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
source 1 source 2
GDPRess | Eliminate external requests to increase GDPR compliance praise owner · intel 59.3 · weakness 41.1
praise owner
7 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and compliance-sensitive marketing teams · Wedge: audit GDPR consent state, tracking disclosures, cookie behavior, and compliance drift
source 1 source 2
External url as post Featured Image (thumbnail) praise owner · intel 58.7 · weakness 43.8
praise owner
stale update history 3 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test thumbnail embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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complaint Any update soon? support · 2019-07-19T09:20:50+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Any update soon?: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I love this plugin and it still works great on two websites of mine but I’m a little bit worried that it wasn’t updated for 5 years now.
compatibility missing feature reliable quality media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint Terms in a Taxonomy arent populating in XML support · 2018-08-16T23:49:03+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Terms in a Taxonomy arent populating in XML: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Terms in a Taxonomy arent populating in XML So there is a taxonomy setup which has hundreds of terms.
setup media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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praise Remove link icon support · 2017-07-17T08:33:23+00:00 · low severity · external images

Remove link icon: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Remove link icon This works really well.
reliable media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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neutral Remove http% for URL support · 2017-05-02T01:12:04+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Remove http% for URL: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Remove http% for URL Hi.. all links create this codes… http%3A%2F% And not work others services. How to remove this? Hi.. all links create this codes… http%3A%2F% And not work others services. How to remove this?
media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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question How to encode external url? support · 2017-03-24T11:27:26+00:00 · low severity · external images

How to encode external url?: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: For example: I given custom prefix as http://mydomain.com/out.php?url= Now external links became: http://mydomain.com/out.php?url=http://externaldomain.com/ I don’t like to show http://externaldomain.com/ in the url.
compatibility media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint two questions support · 2016-08-16T18:45:53+00:00 · medium severity · external images

two questions: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: two questions First thanks for this great plugin.
missing feature quality form media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint Remove External Link icon from Navagation support · 2016-05-22T23:07:44+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Remove External Link icon from Navagation: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Also can i change the external link icon possible too somehow?
missing feature media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint How to Exclude Link For Not Get Redirect support · 2016-04-27T14:26:05+00:00 · medium severity · external images

How to Exclude Link For Not Get Redirect: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: How to Exclude Link For Not Get Redirect Hello, 1st Thanks for make this great plugin.
missing feature quality media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint not working with embedded tags? support · 2016-02-16T21:49:41+00:00 · medium severity · external images

not working with embedded tags?: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hi, I believe there is an issue when parsing markup as shown below: <a class="gateway-nav__link" href="http://www.mysite.com/page.aspx" target="_blank"></p> <div class="gateway-nav__content"> <div class="gateway-nav__link-title">Facilities Info</div> <div class="gateway-nav__link-description"> Visit the Facilites Management site </div> </div> </a> Is there a
bugs media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint Image Links Ignored support · 2016-01-29T02:58:37+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Image Links Ignored: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Image Links Ignored On my site, image links seem to be treated just like text links.
bugs missing feature support media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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neutral add exception in specific link(s) for do-follow support · 2016-01-24T10:19:01+00:00 · medium severity · external images

add exception in specific link(s) for do-follow: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: add exception in specific link(s) for do-follow Any method to add exception for any link in a page or post to make that do-follow? Thanks https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-external-links/ Any method to add exception for any link in a page or post to make that do-follow? Thanks https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-external-links/ You want the link to remain an “
media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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mixed Not compatible with new versions of wordpress ? support · 2016-01-17T15:37:18+00:00 · low severity · external images

Not compatible with new versions of wordpress ?: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Not compatible with new versions of wordpress ?
compatibility support setup media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint Duplicated rel nofollow support · 2015-12-02T21:41:09+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Duplicated rel nofollow: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: My settings: zschocianow.pl/files/Better-WordPress-External-Links.jpeg It would be nice if you could fix it by strpos or something.
bugs missing feature media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint Option to include/exclude "Post Type" support · 2015-09-10T10:45:28+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Option to include/exclude "Post Type": users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Option to include/exclude "Post Type" Is it possible to make the plugin work for some certain “post types”?
bugs compatibility missing feature woocommerce media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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praise Great tool! (5 stars) review · 2015-08-28T19:53:02+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Great tool!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great tool!
quality media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint Can't Redirect support · 2015-07-02T02:16:11+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Can't Redirect: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Can't Redirect very time i click link it will redirect to “Redirect PAges” not my external url.
migration value import media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint Open external links in iFrame support · 2015-05-30T11:10:47+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Open external links in iFrame: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Open external links in iFrame Hi there , I a searching for function to open external links in iFrame instead of processing them through out page Can you help / suggest a plugin for this issue ?
bugs support quality media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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praise Works as described (5 stars) review · 2015-05-17T15:57:31+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Works as described: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works as described We needed to add speedbumps to external links.
performance reliable media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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complaint Image link class not added to web pages support · 2015-02-16T19:32:35+00:00 · medium severity · external images

Image link class not added to web pages: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: setting a new class for image link – External image links CSS class = imgext-link outputs code as – <a title="Opens new window" href="http://www.sssc.uk.com" target="_blank" class="ext-link" rel="external"><img src="mypic.jpg" alt="mypic" class="alignright"></a> I have tested in different browsers, cleared cache etc but do not get expected – <a title="Opens
bugs compatibility missing feature support media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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praise does what it says on the tin (5 stars) review · 2015-02-12T13:54:35+00:00 · medium severity · external images

does what it says on the tin: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: does what it says on the tin solid, simple and flexible plugin, thank you.
easy reliable media publishing and video operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor external links drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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