Internal links being treated (sort of) like external

The plugin works great on external links. And I’d like for it to affect every link that isn’t internal to my website. However, it’s still adding “noreferrer” and “noopener” to my internal links when I haven’t asked it to. It was adding nofollow to them until I specified for it to add follow to them. And it also is adding a “(opens in a new tab)” to the label even though the “data-wpel-link” shows it as “internal.” Even if I go in and say don’t make any changes to internal links and treat my website links as external-but-exceptions, it still adds them.

Top example is when I ask the plugin to not add noopener and noreferrer to internal links. Bottom example is when I try to exclude them by adding them as exceptions:

https://www.needcoffee.com/links-example.png

The plugin/site info is from when I had it setup like in the first example. Thanks in advance for your help.

WP URL: https://www.needcoffee.com

WP version: 6.4.2

PHP version: 8.1.25

Active Theme: Gridlove Child, version: 0.1.0

Active Plugins:

?- AddQuicktag, version: 2.6.1

?- Backup For WP, version: 6.7

?- Classic Editor, version: 1.6.3

?- DreamHost Panel Login, version: 1.0.0

?- Easy Add Thumbnail, version: 1.1.3

?- EditorsKit, version: 1.40.4

?- Envato Market, version: 2.0.11

?- Extendify, version: 1.12.1

?- Force Regenerate Thumbnails, version: 2.1.3

?- Gridlove Buddy, version: 1.0.1

?- Head, Footer and Post Injections, version: 3.2.7

?- Jetpack, version: 13.0

?- Jetpack Boost, version: 2.2.1

?- Jetpack Social, version: 4.0.0

?- Meks Smart Social Widget, version: 1.6.3

?- Nginx Helper, version: 2.2.4

?- Query Monitor, version: 3.15.0

?- Redirection, version: 5.4.1

?- Redux Framework, version: 4.4.11

?- VaultPress, version: 2.2.4

?- WP-PageNavi, version: 2.94.1

?- WP Cookie Consent, version: 2.5.2

?- WP Cookie Consent Pro, version: 2.17.0

?- WP External Links, version: 2.59

?- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), version: 5.30.9

WPEL Settings:

array(

'wpel-external-link-settings' => array (

? 'apply_settings' => '1',

? 'target' => '_blank',

? 'target_overwrite' => '1',

? 'rel_follow' => 'nofollow',

? 'rel_follow_overwrite' => '1',

? 'rel_noopener' => '1',

? 'rel_noreferrer' => '1',

? 'rel_external' => '1',

? 'rel_sponsored' => '',

? 'rel_ugc' => '',

? 'title' => '{title}',

? 'class' => '',

? 'icon_type' => '',

? 'icon_image' => '1',

? 'icon_dashicon' => 'dashicons-menu',

? 'icon_fontawesome' => 'fa-address-book',

? 'icon_position' => 'right',

? 'no_icon_for_img' => '1',

),

'wpel-internal-link-settings' => array (

? 'apply_settings' => '1',

? 'target' => '_self',

? 'target_overwrite' => '1',

? 'rel_follow' => 'follow',

? 'rel_follow_overwrite' => '1',

? 'rel_noopener' => '',

? 'rel_noreferrer' => '',

? 'title' => '{title}',

? 'class' => '',

? 'icon_type' => '',

? 'icon_image' => '1',

? 'icon_dashicon' => 'dashicons-menu',

? 'icon_fontawesome' => 'fa-address-book',

? 'icon_position' => 'right',

? 'no_icon_for_img' => '1',

),

'wpel-exceptions-settings' => array (

? 'apply_all' => '1',

? 'apply_post_content' => '1',

? 'apply_comments' => '1',

? 'apply_widgets' => '1',

? 'skip_post_ids' => '',

? 'ignore_classes' => '',

? 'subdomains_as_internal_links' => '1',

? 'include_urls' => '',

? 'exclude_urls' => '',

? 'excludes_as_internal_links' => '1',

? 'ignore_script_tags' => '1',

? 'ignore_mailto_links' => '1',

),

'wpel-exit-confirmation-settings' => array (

? 'exit_preview' => '',

? 'background' => '#FFFFFF',

? 'title' => 'You are leaving our website',

? 'title_color' => '#FFF',

? 'title_background' => '#999',

? 'title_size' => '18',

? 'text' => 'This link leads outside our website and we are not responsible for its content. If you still want to visit the link, click here:',

? 'text_color' => '#444',

? 'text_size' => '14',

? 'popup_width' => '400',

? 'popup_height' => '200',

? 'overlay' => '1',

? 'overlay_color' => '#000',

? 'button_text' => 'Stay on the site',

? 'button_size' => '14',

? 'button_color' => '#FFF',

? 'button_background' => '#1e73be',

),

);

• This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by widgett. Reason: formatting was wonky

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