External links plugin

if it seems to be ‘random’, it’s either a wp cache issue or a css cache issue.

and… just in case: subdomains are not treated as external.

It is random in the sense of something like only 90% of the external links on a page are correctly marked, and it is random as to which ones are not marked correctly or not.

BTW, if external links and wp-shortstats are both active the server throws a 500 Internal Error.

could you provide examples?

Sorry – temporarily disabled external links, and forgot to reenable them.

External links now enabled on https://www.omz13.com
Look at the “music for programmers” links in the sidebar… only 2 or so have an external link shown, but all are external links.

BTW, If you look at this article (https://www.omz13.com/?p=42) using IE7beta2, the icon for the external link for ‘tag clouds’ link is in the wrong position (but I think that issue is more to do with IE7’s rendering engine).

ok. spotted. thanks for reporting the bug. I’ll investigate further.

I like the plugin, but is their any way to limit where in your template this works? For example, I’d like it to add the icon for links in post or page content, but not in the footer, or to the ‘del.icio.us’ link at the bottom of every post.

not easily done. you’d need to add a class beforehand, and edit some css. something like:

– class=”no_ext” in areas where you don’t want it to appear.

– a few lines in your css file, likely something along the lines of:

.no_ext .external {background-image: none; padding-right: 0px;}

I’ll look further into this for the plugin’s next version.

Hi.

Do i understand the plugin right, that if i set the param add_target TRUE, all external links with no given target will get a target blank?
I’ve tried this, but it did not work.

Greetings, Legolas

Legolas,

I’ve been using Zap’s NewWindow plugin:
https://www.zappelfillip.de/index.php/2005-12-05/zap_newwindow/

It doesn’t make the little “arrow leaving the box” icon appear next to an external link, but otherwise works just fine.

OK, this would be an alternative. But if i read the code of this external link plugin right, it should do both correct.

it does, but I’ve yet to create the admin interface to flush the options. after editing the file, you need to visit wp-admin/options.php and clear the option called (on the top of my head) sem_external_links_params.

D.

Great, now it works. Thanks a lot …

I installed this plugin at my site but it won’t work on andreas4 theme. I tried it on other themes and it works just fine. Anything that I’m missing?

I had installed semi’s plugin and on the fly I got external links with image next to links.

But the problem is, it creates external links to all <a></a> tags it finds, i.e. irrespective of ‘what it is’?

For e.g. linked images (<a><img src=""></a>) were also turned into external links.

Is there a way to restric certain parts from being linkified. Please advice.

coming soon.