Title: Open External Links In New Windows
Author: Keef
Published: <strong>March 24, 2015</strong>
Last modified: October 14, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
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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# Open External Links In New Windows

 By [Keef](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keef/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window.zip)

 * [Details](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-new-window/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-new-window/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-new-window/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-new-window/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/)

## Description

Opens external links (those to other websites outside of your own domain, eg., Facebook,
Twitter, etc) in new windows.

There are no configuration options, simply install and activate.

## Installation

 1. Download the plugin.
 2. Upload the plugin to your plugins directory.
 3. Activate the plugin.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Careful: Does what it says but screws the sitemap.xml plugins (workaround below)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/careful-does-what-it-says-but-screws-the-sitemap-xml-plugins-workaround-below/)󠁿

 [timeboxed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/timeboxed/) September 25, 2016

Hey, The plugin itself works as advertised – but there is a blank line at the end
of one of the files which causes generated XML files to fail which is poison to 
your google settings. To manually fix, open the open-external-links-in-new-windows.
php and delete the last, blank line until dev has updated it.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Open External Links In New Windows” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Keef ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keef/)

[Translate “Open External Links In New Windows” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/open-external-links-in-new-window)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/open-external-links-in-new-window/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/open-external-links-in-new-window/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/open-external-links-in-new-window/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/open-external-links-in-new-window/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **60+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-new-window/)
 * Tags
 * [external links](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/external-links/)[external URLs](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/external-urls/)
   [open in new window](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/open-in-new-window/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/open-external-links-in-new-window/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Keef ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keef/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/open-external-links-in-new-window/)

## Donate

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