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External Links in New Window / New Tab

Search & Navigation External Link Behavior

External Links in New Window / New Tab is a WordPress plugin for External Link Behavior. It ranks #1 of 13 in that group by active installs and was last updated 3 months ago.

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Slug open-external-links-in-a-new-window

30K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.5 Rating out of 5 From 77 ratings
15 Releases Since 24 September 2010
Aug 2026 Last release 3 months ago

Maintenance check

Is External Links in New Window / New Tab still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 3 months ago.
  • Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.5 out of 5 from 77 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 97.7% of the directory

Ahead of 46,653 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

97.7% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
46,653 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
1,080 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
1.45
Requires WordPress
4.0
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
5.2
Added to the directory
24 September 2010
Last updated
16 August 2026
Contributors
1
Author
WebFactory

Its own tags

  • external links
  • links
  • new tab
  • new window
  • target blank

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