You can configure all external links with custom settings globally in your WordPress site. For example: If you want to open all external links in a new tab then you can configure WordPress to open all external links in a new tab so that you don’t need giving blank target everytime you add an external link inside your blog post or anywhere else.
WP External Links is a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you control working of all external links from your admin area dashboard. Install and activate it, upon activation visit Dashboard -> External Links and set the options as per your need. Using this plugin you can:
- Open external links in new window or tab
- Add “nofollow” and “external” to rel-attribute
- Choose out of 20 icons
- Add additional classes for custom styling
- Set no-icon class
- Set title attribute
- XHTML strict and SEO friendly