Title: Plugin Has Stopped Working
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Plugin Has Stopped Working

 *  Resolved [Juba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brightonseo/)
 * (@brightonseo)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/)
 * Just letting you guys know that this plugin no longer nofollows external links.
   It could be that it’s not compatible with the latest version of WordPress but
   then again it could just be lack of updates.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-external-links/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-external-links/)

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 *  [Hope](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amalsh/)
 * (@amalsh)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599291)
 * Indeed, it’s not working anymore… Any solution?
 *  Thread Starter [Juba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brightonseo/)
 * (@brightonseo)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599292)
 * WP Nofollow Post works like a charm.:)
 *  [Pi Zi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freelancephp/)
 * (@freelancephp)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599300)
 * What exactly isn’t working?
    What do you see? Or what do you not see? Need more
   details.
 *  [Hope](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amalsh/)
 * (@amalsh)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599301)
 * Links are not opening in a new window anymore, it opens in the same window! What
   could the problem be?
 *  Thread Starter [Juba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brightonseo/)
 * (@brightonseo)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599302)
 * Happy to see you’ve gone ahead and updated the plugin. I don’t know if it resolves
   the problem as I’m now using another plugin but I hope it works for other users.
   
   Well done for finally making the effort to update it.
 *  [Pi Zi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freelancephp/)
 * (@freelancephp)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599303)
 * Hope, I don’t know. What are your settings?
 *  [marlonhe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marlonhe/)
 * (@marlonhe)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599310)
 * I’m having a similar issue as hope. Even though I set it to open in window, the
   plugin adds data-wpel-target= instead of just target=. This has caused all my
   links to open in same window. Is there any way to turn off the _blank, _self,
   _new, feature? Truthfully I only take advantage of the class feature.
 *  [Pi Zi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freelancephp/)
 * (@freelancephp)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599313)
 * True, the `data-wpel-target` is used by JavaScript to open in a new window.
    
   What’s the url of your site?

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-external-links/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2103983)
 * [External Links - nofollow, noopener & new window](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-external-links/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-external-links/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-external-links/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-external-links/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-external-links/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-external-links/reviews/)

 * 8 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Pi Zi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freelancephp/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-has-stopped-working-8/#post-5599313)
 * Status: resolved