Comparison · generated on request
External Links vs External Links Manager – Open new window in a new tab + nofollow, noreferrer
Both plugins as this registry currently observes them. Figures come from the same daily snapshot, so they are directly comparable, which two separate wordpress.org pages, read minutes apart, are not.
| External Links | External Links Manager – Open new window in a new tab + nofollow, noreferrer | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | The external links plugin for WordPress lets you process outgoing links differently from internal links. | Manage external links: new tabs, add rel attribute nofollow, noopener, noreferrer, sponsored, show icon on/off. SEO, secure, XHTML Strict compliant. |
| Active installs | 8,000+ | 50+ |
| Rating | 4.8★ (36) | 5.0★ (1) |
| Last release | 8.5 years ago | 3 months ago |
| Current owner | Denis de Bernardy | NewCodeByte |
| Added to directory | 20 Dec 2008 | 26 May 2025 |
| Tested up to | WP 4.7.35 | WP 7.0.4 |
| Requires PHP | false | 7.0 |
Install figures are rounded by WordPress.org to one significant digit, so a gap smaller than a band step is not a difference. Nothing here ranks the two plugins or recommends either, and no link on this page earns anything.
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