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Comment Links New Tab will allow you to have your comment author name links open in a new tab or window. In other words, instead of leaving your site completely when clicked, they will open in a new tab.
This will increase the likelihood that visitors will continue browsing your website.
Simple, fast, and effective!
<h4>Some of the features include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Whitelist your domain</li>
<li>Select a css class, id, or custom value</li>
<li>Enter a css value</li>
<li>Open comment links in a new tab or the same tab</li>
<li>Select keep original, external nofollow, nofollow, or dofollow rel (relationship) link attribute</li>
<li>Use an optional title</li>
<li>Option to Compress/Minify Js (javascript file)</li>
<li>Works with http:// and https:// links</li>
</ul>

Comment Links New Tab

Stop sending visitors away - open comment author links in a new tab or window with: Comment Links New Tab.

etalented

This plugin will solve the problem of manually changing all your external links to open in a new window by doing it automatically for you…for all external links in all posts and pages!
This plugin uses standard HTML and doesn’t introduce any more JavaScript into your already JavaScript heavy WordPress site. It also uses very minimal styling (CSS) to display a new window icon, which is embedded and not externally linked.
The display of the new window icon can be changed in the settings page and you can also add the <code>rel="nofollow"</code> attribute. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more about <code>rel="nofollow"</code> on Wikipedia</a>.
Updates to the plugin will be posted on the <a href="https://etalented.co.uk/wordpress-plugin-external-links-to-new-window" rel="nofollow ugc">Etalented website</a> as well as to the <a href="https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/external-links-to-new-window/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress.org Plugin Directory</a>.
Originally created by <a href="http://thisismyurl.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Christopher Ross</a> and now authored by <a href="https://etalented.co.uk" rel="nofollow ugc">Etalented</a>.

External Links to New Window

Open all external links in your blog posts and pages automatically in a new tab or new window when clicked or tapped.

Comment Links New Tab vs External Links to New Window