Title: data-wpel-link
Last modified: September 14, 2022

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# data-wpel-link

 *  Resolved [emilio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emiliotakas/)
 * (@emiliotakas)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/)
 * Hello,
 * Is there a way to remove the tag data-wpel-link from the code as it makes the
   DOM bigger and this is something that we don’t want.
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by [emilio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emiliotakas/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * (@talextech)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/#post-16010321)
 * Hi,
 * No, sorry, we use that to keep track of the links 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [emilio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emiliotakas/)
 * (@emiliotakas)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/#post-16015844)
 * Even after I deleted the plugin, I still see data-wpel-link=”internal” and data-
   wpel-link=”external”. Is there any way I can remove them? I have already cleared
   all the caches.
 *  Plugin Author [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * (@talextech)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/#post-16016045)
 * WP External Links only adds those attributes dynamically on page load and they
   are not permanently stored anywhere. So if you deactivated WPEL it should be 
   some sort of cache that is left, some of them are pretty resilient 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [emilio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emiliotakas/)
 * (@emiliotakas)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/#post-16016074)
 * Any ideas how to remove them after I cleared all the caches?
 *  Plugin Author [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * (@talextech)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/#post-16016077)
 * Can you give me a link to one of the pages where they are still showing?
 *  Thread Starter [emilio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emiliotakas/)
 * (@emiliotakas)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/#post-16016740)
 * Kindly send me an email to send you the link
 *  Plugin Author [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * (@talextech)
 * [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/#post-16018281)
 * Sorry but according to the Forum Guidelines ( [https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#the-bad-stuff](https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#the-bad-stuff)):
   “
   Do not post email addresses, ask others to post their email or solicit contacting
   people off of the forums”

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 * Last reply from: [Alexandru Tapuleasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talextech/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-wpel-link/#post-16018281)
 * Status: resolved