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External Links · Version history

External Links changelog and version history

Latest version
2.66
Aug 16, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
68
since 2011
In the last year
4
about one every 85 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.2 or later

Releases each year

  • 201115 releases
  • 20123 releases
  • 20133 releases
  • 20146 releases
  • 20156 releases
  • 20167 releases
  • 20174 releases
  • 20195 releases
  • 20204 releases
  • 20211 release
  • 20225 releases
  • 20232 releases
  • 20242 releases
  • 20252 releases
  • 20263 releases

20263 releases

  1. External Links 2.66Latest

    • 2026-07-24
    • minor fixes

  2. External Links 2.65

    • 2026-05-21
    • minor fixes

  3. External Links 2.64

    • 2026-03-21
    • PHP 8.5 compatibility
    • bug fixes

20252 releases

  1. External Links 2.63

    • 2025-07-12
    • _load_textdomain fix

  2. External Links 2.62

    • 2024-10-13
    • minor security fixes and code tweaks

20242 releases

  1. External Links 2.61

    • 2024-07-08
    • minor security fixes

  2. External Links 2.60

    • 2024-02-20
    • fixed WordPress Network activation bug

20232 releases

  1. External Links 2.59

    • 2023-10-25
    • fixed “icon_type” cannot be found bug

  2. External Links 2.58

    • 2023-03-08
    • security fix

20225 releases

  1. External Links 2.57

    • 2022-12-27
    • added double-check on all template include paths

  2. External Links 2.56

    • 2022-11-20
    • security fixes
    • removed all external CDNs
    • fixed translation issues

  3. External Links 2.55

    • 2022-07-09
    • fixed current_screen() bug
    • fixed “icon_type” cannot be found bug
    • introduction of the PRO version
    • removed link scanner beta

  4. External Links 2.51

    • 2022-01-28
    • fixed icons for excluded external links
    • fixed FontAwesome conflict

  5. External Links 2.50

    • 2021-07-09
    • completely new GUI
    • link scanner / link analyzer SaaS beta

20211 release

  1. External Links 2.48

    • 2021-01-30
    • added flyout menu
    • removed promo for WP 301 Redirects PRO

20204 releases

  1. External Links 2.47

    • 2020-10-05
    • added settings link to plugins table
    • added promo for WP 301 Redirects PRO

  2. External Links 2.46

    • 2020-05-09
    • fixed “unable to save post” when using Gutenberg
    • sorry for two updated in two days 🙁

  3. External Links 2.45

    • 2020-05-08
    • fixed compatibility issue with Site Kit by Google

  4. External Links 2.43

    • 2019-12-27
    • improved link detection regex

20195 releases

  1. External Links 2.42

    • 2019-12-18
    • fixed various undefined variable notices
    • fixed an issue when there’s no href attribute set in an A element

  2. External Links 2.40

    • 2019-11-20
    • no longer loads CSS and FontAwesome globally on admin pages
    • added support for “ugc” (User Generated Content) and “sponsored” values in rel

  3. External Links 2.35

    • 2019-09-12
    • FontAwesome updated to 4.7 with 41 new icons
    • bug fix: ship anchor URLs (#anchor)
    • bug fix: don’t match domain if the name is contained in the URL

  4. External Links 2.32

    • 2019-07-09
    • security fixes

  5. External Links 2.3

    • 2019-06-14
    • bug fixes
    • 40,000 installations hit on 2018-03-13
    • for older changelog entries please visit https://getwplinks.com/old-changelog.txt

20174 releases

  1. External Links 2.2.0

  2. External Links 2.1.3

  3. External Links 2.1.2

  4. External Links 2.1.1

20167 releases

  1. External Links 2.1.0

  2. External Links 2.0.4

  3. External Links 2.0.3

  4. External Links 2.0.2

  5. External Links 2.0.1

  6. External Links 2.0.0

  7. External Links 1.81

20156 releases

  1. External Links 1.80

  2. External Links 1.70

  3. External Links 1.62

  4. External Links 1.61

  5. External Links 1.60

  6. External Links 1.56

20146 releases

  1. External Links 1.55

  2. External Links 1.54

  3. External Links 1.53

  4. External Links 1.52

  5. External Links 1.51

  6. External Links 1.50

20133 releases

  1. External Links 1.41

  2. External Links 1.40

  3. External Links 1.31

20123 releases

  1. External Links 1.30

  2. External Links 1.21

  3. External Links 1.20

201115 releases

  1. External Links 1.10

  2. External Links 1.03

  3. External Links 1.02

  4. External Links 1.01

  5. External Links 0.35

  6. External Links 0.34

  7. External Links 0.33

  8. External Links 0.32

  9. External Links 0.31

  10. External Links 0.30

  11. External Links 0.21

  12. External Links 0.20

  13. External Links 0.12

  14. External Links 0.11

  15. External Links 0.10

Questions about External Links’s releases

What is the latest version of External Links?

2.66, released on Aug 16, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.2 or later.

How often is External Links updated?

4 releases in the last year, about one every 85 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from February 2011.

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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.