External Links Overview

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Analyze, display, and check all external links from your posts and pages. Helps find broken links and understand your outbound linking profile.

Author:Christian Ott (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.0
WordPress version tested:6.9
Plugin version:1.3.0
Added to WordPress repository:03-05-2025
Last updated:01-09-2025
Rating, %:100
Rated by:2
Plugin URI:https://www.seo-kreativ.de/plugins/external-l...
Total downloads:3 019
Active installs:700+
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The “External Links Overview” plugin scans your WordPress posts and pages for outgoing external links and presents them in a searchable, filterable, and sortable table. It helps you optimize your outbound link profile and identify broken or potentially harmful links.

All plugin functions, options, and database entries use the prefix seokelo_ to prevent conflicts with other plugins.

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Features

✅ Collects and analyzes external links from posts and pages
✅ Displays a detailed link table with sorting, filtering (e.g. broken links), and search
✅ Verifies the HTTP status of external links (e.g. 404, 301, timeout)
✅ Shows rel and target attributes of each link
✅ Tracks domain distribution: see which domains you link to most frequently
✅ CSV export of all link data
✅ Dashboard widget showing a summary of broken links
✅ Uses prefix seokelo_ / SEOKELO_ for all functions, options, and database entries
✅ Rescans posts after updates for up-to-date link data
✅ Clean uninstall: removes plugin data when deleted via WordPress admin

Usage

  1. Go to External Links Collect All External Links to start the initial scan.
  2. Use the Link Table tab to view, filter, and sort all collected links.
  3. Click Check External Links Status to validate HTTP status codes.
  4. Visit the Domain Distribution tab to analyze your outbound domain profile.
  5. Export your data using the Export CSV button.

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.
See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Developer Notes

Hooks and filters will be documented in future releases.
The plugin uses seokelo_ as a unique function prefix throughout.

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