New Page Link plugin converts all your external or internal links in the body to always open in a new tab.
| Author: | Zeeshan Aslam Durrani (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 5.5 |
| WordPress version tested: | 5.8 |
| Plugin version: | 2.2 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 02-10-2015 |
| Last updated: | 19-08-2021
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 4 |
| Plugin URI: | http://wordpresshowtos.blogspot.com/2015/10/n... |
| Total downloads: | 10 235 |
| Active installs: | 100+ |
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New Page Link plugin makes all your hyperlinks in your body area to open in new tabs. Also you can add rel=”nofollow” to selective ahrefs with a specific class name. You can mark external hyperlinks as rel=”nofollow” as they might be having a nagative impact on your site SEO. Google crawlers don’t crawl or rate the links that are marked as nofollow.
Installation Guide
Major features of New Page Link include:
- Changing the behaviour of link or links to open in new tabs or in the same window on clicking
- An options page to control open link in new page functionality
Below are the steps to install New Page Link plugin
- Upload plugin to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to the settings menu in the dashboard and then look for new link menu in it (settings/newlink).
- Click on new link menu
- Type the value ‘Yes’ to make links in body of your pages to open in new window
- Type ‘No’ or anything else to keep them opening in the same window
- Also you can add classes in another textbox of the hyperlinks that you don’t want google to include in your seo or impact your seo. So simply write class name followed by semicolon. There is no limit to how much class names you can add.
- And you are done !
Screenshots
Click screenshot tab to see the options area under settings and then clicking on newlink option. There you have to type Yes to make it open everything in body of the page to open in new tab. Change it to No or anything else to open links in the same window.