Christian Ott

<p>The “External Links Overview” plugin scans your WordPress posts and pages for outgoing <strong>external links</strong> and presents them in a <strong>searchable, filterable, and sortable table</strong>. It helps you optimize your outbound link profile and identify broken or potentially harmful links.</p>
<p>All plugin functions, options, and database entries use the prefix <code>seokelo_</code> to prevent conflicts with other plugins.</p>
<p>👉 <a href="https://www.seo-kreativ.de/plugins/external-links-overview/" rel="nofollow ugc">External Links Overview Plugin Homepage on seo-kreativ.de</a><br />
💬 <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/external-links-overview/" rel="ugc">Get Support on WordPress.org</a></p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>✅ Collects and analyzes external links from posts and pages<br />
✅ Displays a detailed link table with sorting, filtering (e.g. broken links), and search<br />
✅ Verifies the HTTP status of external links (e.g. 404, 301, timeout)<br />
✅ Shows <code>rel</code> and <code>target</code> attributes of each link<br />
✅ Tracks domain distribution: see which domains you link to most frequently<br />
✅ CSV export of all link data<br />
✅ Dashboard widget showing a summary of broken links<br />
✅ Uses prefix <code>seokelo_</code> / <code>SEOKELO_</code> for all functions, options, and database entries<br />
✅ Rescans posts after updates for up-to-date link data<br />
✅ Clean uninstall: removes plugin data when deleted via WordPress admin</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>External Links <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Collect All External Links</strong> to start the initial scan.  </li>
<li>Use the <strong>Link Table</strong> tab to view, filter, and sort all collected links.  </li>
<li>Click <strong>Check External Links Status</strong> to validate HTTP status codes.  </li>
<li>Visit the <strong>Domain Distribution</strong> tab to analyze your outbound domain profile.  </li>
<li>Export your data using the <strong>Export CSV</strong> button.</li>
</ol>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.<br />
See <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</a></p>
<h3>Developer Notes</h3>
<p>Hooks and filters will be documented in future releases.<br />
The plugin uses <code>seokelo_</code> as a unique function prefix throughout.</p>


External Links Overview

Analyze, manage, and monitor all external links on your WordPress site. ---

pluginkollektiv

<p>When a post is saved or published, this plugin will</p>
<ul>
<li>scan the post’s content for any URLs,</li>
<li>ping all the URLs found (except relative ones),</li>
<li>detect any broken or unreachable URLs and list them for review and correction.</li>
</ul>
<p>No more publishing of links or images broken by typos or incompletely copy-pasted URLs!</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Community support via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/spcl" rel="ugc">support forums on wordpress.org</a></li>
<li>We don’t handle support via e-mail, Twitter, GitHub issues etc.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active development of this plugin is handled <a href="https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/spcl" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</li>
<li>Pull requests for documented bugs are highly appreciated.</li>
<li>If you think you’ve found a bug (e.g. you’re experiencing unexpected behavior), please post at the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/spcl" rel="ugc">support forums</a> first.</li>
<li>If you want to help us translate this plugin you can do so <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/spcl" rel="nofollow ugc">on WordPress Translate</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Author: <a href="https://sergejmueller.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sergej Müller</a></li>
<li>Maintainers: <a href="https://pluginkollektiv.org" rel="nofollow ugc">pluginkollektiv</a></li>
</ul>


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