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Indicate External Links

Indicates external links in post, page and custom content.

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Open evidence

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

48 / 66 rows with source links

72.7% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

18 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
107 127 -15.7% 628

Source Evidence

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mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Remove symbol underline

Remove symbol underline: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Remove symbol underline Hi Nice and simple plugin.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Does not work on Multisite

Does not work on Multisite: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Does not work on Multisite Hello, really nice plugin, thank you so much!
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Adjust the size and color of the arrow on mobile devices

Adjust the size and color of the arrow on mobile devices: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Unfortunately it doesn’t work if I add the css to the additional css This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by andifidi .
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.61
SVN trunk gives incorrect Stable tag

SVN trunk gives incorrect Stable tag: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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SVN trunk gives incorrect Stable tag Slight problem, in http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/indicate-external-links/trunk/readme.txt you have Stable tag: 1.0.1 however that tag does not exist, the only tag that exists in SVN is 1.0.0 Our updater gets an error because of this.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.61
Very Useful Plugin But Too Hardcoded

Very Useful Plugin But Too Hardcoded: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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I had this little problem though, the plugin adds JavaScript and CSS into WordPress header wp_head which makes it difficult to override in the theme’s stylesheet.
neutral support · medium severity · relevance 0.53
Plugin breaks top-navigation-layout

Plugin breaks top-navigation-layout: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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See this screenshot: https://screenpresso.com/=SMLnc My theme is: Nirvana https://de.wordpress.org/themes/nirvana/ Any ideas?
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Just perfect

Just perfect: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Just perfect This plugin is just what I was looking for.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Love the convenience

Love the convenience: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Love the convenience Although this simple, but important, effect may be produced with a little CSS coding, I appreciate the convenience of this plugin.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Excellent

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

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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Excellent Simple and quick.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Thanks!

Thanks!: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
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As I’m of those who, despite what you’ll read everywhere, firmly believes that external links should always open in a new window, I found this plugin quite useful and easy to implement.

Competitor Context

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Sticky Back2Top Universal praise owner · intel 39.4 · weakness 32.5
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stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect buttons layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Scroll Down Arrow praise owner · intel 29.9 · weakness 15.4
praise owner
1 source link Hold Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around scroll before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust

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Collected Signals

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praise Love the convenience (5 stars) review · 2026-02-14T18:41:14+00:00 · medium severity · https

Love the convenience: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Love the convenience Although this simple, but important, effect may be produced with a little CSS coding, I appreciate the convenience of this plugin.
migration easy quality import hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Thanks! (5 stars) review · 2022-04-24T01:30:34+00:00 · medium severity · https

Thanks!: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: As I’m of those who, despite what you’ll read everywhere, firmly believes that external links should always open in a new window, I found this plugin quite useful and easy to implement.
easy quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
question Exclude Some URLs support · 2022-03-03T17:27:01+00:00 · low severity · https

Exclude Some URLs: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Exclude Some URLs Hi there. I’m running on multi-site, but I don’t want the indicator to show for any links between sites. I do see in your faq the note to add custom CSS .myclass .extlink sup:after { content:”; } I have not been able to get this to work. For example, if my site is mysite.com, and I have a daily.mysite.com multi-site, can I do something like
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise This plugin just keeps on working (5 stars) review · 2021-12-17T12:21:44+00:00 · medium severity · https

This plugin just keeps on working: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: This plugin just keeps on working Very reliable has survived many Wp updates and just keeps working.
reliable hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed SVN trunk gives incorrect Stable tag support · 2021-12-17T12:20:23+00:00 · medium severity · https

SVN trunk gives incorrect Stable tag: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: SVN trunk gives incorrect Stable tag Slight problem, in http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/indicate-external-links/trunk/readme.txt you have Stable tag: 1.0.1 however that tag does not exist, the only tag that exists in SVN is 1.0.0 Our updater gets an error because of this.
bugs reliable hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
neutral External Link Symbol on Menu Link to start page support · 2021-02-28T19:55:53+00:00 · low severity · https

External Link Symbol on Menu Link to start page: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: External Link Symbol on Menu Link to start page Hi, why is the link icon also displayed in Menu to the start page? greetingxxxx Silvio Hi, why is the link icon also displayed in Menu to the start page? greetingxxxx Silvio I should be able to suggest a reason for this if you provide a link to your page. I should be able to suggest a reason for this if you pro
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Adjust the size and color of the arrow on mobile devices support · 2020-03-30T17:14:47+00:00 · medium severity · https

Adjust the size and color of the arrow on mobile devices: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Unfortunately it doesn’t work if I add the css to the additional css This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by andifidi .
bugs support setup hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed MS Edge glyph different from chrome support · 2019-09-17T09:06:48+00:00 · low severity · https

MS Edge glyph different from chrome: users show missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: MS Edge glyph different from chrome Hi thanks for an excellent plugin.
missing feature migration quality import hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
neutral Plugin breaks top-navigation-layout support · 2018-03-27T20:51:15+00:00 · medium severity · https

Plugin breaks top-navigation-layout: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: See this screenshot: https://screenpresso.com/=SMLnc My theme is: Nirvana https://de.wordpress.org/themes/nirvana/ Any ideas?
bugs compatibility setup hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Open External Link in new tab by default? support · 2018-03-11T03:51:51+00:00 · low severity · https

Open External Link in new tab by default?: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hi, is it possible to setup this plugin so that all internal links open in the same tab whereas external links open in new tabs by default?
missing feature support setup value hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Can the arrow be “lowered”? support · 2017-08-08T13:22:14+00:00 · low severity · https

Can the arrow be “lowered”?: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Since the arrow on the link sits above the line height of the line it is in, have one or more external links in a paragraph causes the formatting of the paragraph to be a little “jagged” and not uniform.
compatibility quality form hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Does not work on Multisite support · 2017-07-22T05:53:59+00:00 · medium severity · https

Does not work on Multisite: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Does not work on Multisite Hello, really nice plugin, thank you so much!
bugs missing feature support setup hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Excellent (5 stars) review · 2017-01-08T21:16:23+00:00 · medium severity · https

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

Evidence: Excellent Simple and quick.
missing feature easy reliable quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Remove symbol underline support · 2017-01-08T17:29:12+00:00 · medium severity · https

Remove symbol underline: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Remove symbol underline Hi Nice and simple plugin.
bugs compatibility support migration hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise COOL! (5 stars) review · 2016-07-19T05:18:47+00:00 · medium severity · https

COOL!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: COOL! Elegant, intuitive… really beautiful pl to show external links in professional mode. Marco Elegant, intuitive… really beautiful pl to show external links in professional mode. Marco
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed deactivate the symbol to specific URL's support · 2016-04-30T09:46:15+00:00 · low severity · https

deactivate the symbol to specific URL's: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: deactivate the symbol to specific URL's Hi, is it possible to deactivate the symbol to specific URL’s?
compatibility missing feature reliable hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
neutral No logo for your own URLs support · 2015-10-10T23:26:11+00:00 · low severity · https

No logo for your own URLs: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: No logo for your own URLs I have multiple domains, an update with settings, display no logo for further domains, would be cool.
missing feature hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
neutral symbol used for external link support · 2015-04-27T16:08:37+00:00 · low severity · https

symbol used for external link: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: symbol used for external link I’m unclear on where to find the location of the image file for the marker. I need to substitute something a little smaller, so could you please point me in the right direction? Thanks. https://wordpress.org/plugins/indicate-external-links/ I’m unclear on where to find the location of the image file for the marker. I need to sub
hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Very Useful Plugin But Too Hardcoded (5 stars) review · 2014-11-27T19:07:11+00:00 · medium severity · https

Very Useful Plugin But Too Hardcoded: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I had this little problem though, the plugin adds JavaScript and CSS into WordPress header wp_head which makes it difficult to override in the theme’s stylesheet.
compatibility missing feature setup hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Just perfect (5 stars) review · 2014-10-24T17:42:35+00:00 · medium severity · https

Just perfect: users show performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Just perfect This plugin is just what I was looking for.
performance quality hosting operations and site health Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor link drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes