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External Links · Version history

External Links changelog and version history

Latest version
6.8.1
Apr 29, 2017 (9 years ago)
Releases
28
since 2014
In the last year
0
Tested up to
WordPress 4.7.39

Releases each year

  • 201422 releases
  • 20154 releases
  • 20172 releases

20172 releases

  1. External Links 6.8.1Latest

    • Fix: Embedded Facebook urls no longer processed by Auto Convert text functionality

  2. External Links 6.8

    • Change: Handle links that space multiple lines (props archon810)
    • Fix: Add url found in a tag with a data- attribute prefix to the Auto convert Text Urls exclusion list (Fixes problem with addtoany)
    • Fix: Do not convert text urls found in schema.org meta and div tags
    • Fix: Do not convert text urls found in svg xlmns attributes
    • Fix: Remove strpos(): Empty needle PHP warning in sem-external-links.php (props archon810)
    • Under Hood: Tested with PHP 7.x

20154 releases

  1. External Links 6.7

    • Fix: Some links with affiliate code may not be correctly detected as an external link.
    • Fix: Auto Convert Text Urls were being applied to Text Widgets regardless of Settings
    • Fix: A lengthy page or long embedded form could cause Auto Convert Text URLS to fail and result in some blanking of the text.
    • Change: Site domain entered in the ‘Domains To Exclude’ with a trailing slash is handled better and trailing slash is simply removed.

  2. External Links 6.6

    • New option to exclude html code blocks (pre and code) from link processing
    • Updated the text-domain to sem-external-links to match plugin’s slug to support internationalization efforts

  3. External Links 6.5.1

    • No functionality changes in this release.
    • WP 4.3 compat
    • Tested against PHP 5.6

  4. External Links 6.5

    • Domains to Exclude no longer assumes subdomains meaning subdomains need to be specifically excluded now.
    • Entry of Domains to Exclude now allows separation by comma, space, newline/return, and tab. It will convert into a csv list.
    • Fix placeholder links (href=”#”) not being excluded from processing correctly.
    • Fix Plugin version number not being updated in the database options correctly.

201422 releases

  1. External Links 6.4.1

    • External Links with querystring not being excluded by Domains to Exclude
    • Ensure http/https are stripped off exclude domains in External Links admin
    • Fix wrong parameter count in strstr warning for sites using PHP 5.2 or earlier
    • Fix subdomain logic when the subdomain is also used in the tld – co.city.co.us

  2. External Links 6.4

    • New setting to specify domain(s) to be excluded from any processing. props Brian Wilson
    • Remove multi-site check that was causing all links to be deemed internal.
    • WP 4.1 Compat

  3. External Links 6.3.1

    • Fix bug that crept back in with embedded image with a class while the link itself had no class attribute

  4. External Links 6.3

    • Changed link detection to err on the side of a link being local rather than external to avoid false positives.
    • Fixed double inclusion of class attribute under certain link attribute ordering conditions

  5. External Links 6.2

    • Additional performance changes for long post/page when Apply Globally is off.
    • Links with no anchor text will have nofollow and/or target set, but no external icon
    • Improved detection and handling of anchor links as internal.
    • Initial support for AddThis placeholder links

  6. External Links 6.1

    • The nofollow attribute was not being set if a certain combination of the global, follow comments, set nofollow settings were set.
    • Backtracked and removed the Follow Comments functionality. It’s usage was limited to certain cases and if Apply Globally was on, then it was disabled. Supporting it was adding too complex logic.

  7. External Links 6.0.1

    • Well plugin decided to break classes on embedded images. Obviously corrected.

  8. External Links 6.0

    • Fixed performance issues with the link processing. Really was poor.
    • Embedded the functionality of the autolink uri and the dofollow plugins (off by default in Settings)
    • New option on how to treat subdomains of installed plugin domain as local or external
    • Fixed several php strict warnings

  9. External Links 5.5.4

    • Remove HTML comments added in 5.4.1 to assist in troubleshooting some select site issues

  10. External Links 5.5.3

    • Use template_redirect hook and put ourselves after default hooks that most 404/redirect plugins want to use and Yoast’s at priority 99999

  11. External Links 5.5.2

    • Fix compatibility with Yoast WP SEO plugin when Force Title Rewrite option is on and using the Apply Globally setting of this plugin.

  12. External Links 5.5.1

    • Additional tweak to global callback processing

  13. External Links 5.5

    • Use wp_print_footer_scripts hook instead of wp_footer as some themes fail to call wp_footer();
    • Use own custom version of the anchor_utils class
    • Content, excerpt and comment filters no longer called when Apply Globally is selected. Improves performance.

  14. External Links 5.4.1

    • Troubleshooting release. Adds a few html comments in the page source to ensure hooks are being called.

  15. External Links 5.4

    • Handle nested parenthesis in javascript event attributes on links and images

  16. External Links 5.3.2

    • Temporarily placeholders links – http:// and https:// (no other url components) are no longer processed.

  17. External Links 5.3

    • Fix: Conflict with Auto Thickbox plugin that would result in text widgets still being filtered even though option was turned off
    • Fix: Ensure this plugin filter is executed way back in the change to prevent other plugins/themes from reversing our changes
    • Code refactoring
    • WP 3.9 compat

  18. External Links 5.2.1

    • Checks for new sem_dofollow class to determine if Do Follow plugin is active
    • WP 3.8 compat

  19. External Links 5.2

    • Further updates to the link attribute parsing code
    • Fixed bug where external link was not processed if it was preceded by an empty text anchor link.

  20. External Links 5.1

  21. External Links 5.0

  22. External Links 4.2

Questions about External Links’s releases

What is the latest version of External Links?

6.8.1, released on Apr 29, 2017 (9 years ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 4.7.39.

How often is External Links updated?

It had no release in the last year; the latest came out 9 years ago. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2014.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in External Links’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.