{"id":76370,"date":"2012-04-17T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=76370"},"modified":"2012-04-19T04:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T08:15:46","slug":"automatically-open-wordpress-links-and-a-new-window-and-no-follow-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/automatically-open-wordpress-links-and-a-new-window-and-no-follow-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatically Open WordPress Links in a New Window and No-Follow Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[76370]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/automatically-open-wordpress-links-and-a-new-window-and-no-follow-them\/link-big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76371\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76371\" title=\"link-big\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/link-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"643\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you spend a lot of your time setting your external links to open in a new window, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/sem-external-links\/\" target=\"_blank\">External Links<\/a> plugin can take care of the job for you. In addition, it allows you to set the links as \u201cnofollow\u201d \u2013 something especially useful if you open your site up to postings from the general public.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, you can set links to appear with an icon if you like.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at the simple settings for the plugin.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[76370]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/automatically-open-wordpress-links-and-a-new-window-and-no-follow-them\/settings-16\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76373\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76373\" title=\"settings\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/settings5.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"642\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nAnd here\u2019s a look at a link with an icon, as well as a peek under the hood. Notice the \u201cnofollow\u201d attribute, as well as \u201c_blank\u201d (this is what tells browsers to open the link in a new window).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[76370]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/automatically-open-wordpress-links-and-a-new-window-and-no-follow-them\/nofollow-new-window\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76374\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76374\" title=\"nofollow-new-window\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nofollow-new-window.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"643\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSimple but effective.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-2126897\/stock-photo-chain-link-close-up\" target=\"_blank\">Chain Link Close Up<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple plugin takes care of a few import tasks for you with ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":76372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-76370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216227,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76370\/revisions\/216227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76370"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=76370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}