Title: LDB External Links
Author: ldebrouwer
Published: <strong>August 16, 2010</strong>
Last modified: August 18, 2010

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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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# LDB External Links

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ldb-external-links.1.1.zip)

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

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ldb-external-links/)

## Description

LDB External Links turns all your links with target=”_blank” into rel=”external”
and uses Javascript to open them in a new window or tab.

## Installation

 1. Upload the folder `ldb-external-links` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Presto, Your done! No configuration needed.

## FAQ

  Why isn’t it working?

You probably forgot to add or either removed the wp_head() from your header.php 
file.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“LDB External Links” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

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

[Translate “LDB External Links” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ldb-external-links)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Added a configuration page so you can choose the value of the rel attribute.

#### 1.0

 * First version of the plugin.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
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## Contributors

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

## Support

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