Clifford Paulick

<p>Create links with a shortcode. Comes in handy in places where HTML tags aren’t allowed and/or keep getting encoded or something.</p>
<p>Basically, just a utility plugin.</p>
<h4>Accepts 3 parameters:</h4>
<ul>
<li>url</li>
<li>target (automatically adds the leading underscore)</li>
<li>class</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples:</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>[tklink url="https://www.nike.com/"]Just do it[/tklink]</code>
<ul>
<li>Outputs: <code><a class="tklink" href="https://www.nike.com/">Just do it</a></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>[tklink url="https://www.wordpress.org/"][/tklink]</code>
<ul>
<li>Outputs: <code><a class="tklink" href="https://www.wordpress.org/">https://www.wordpress.org/</a></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>[tklink url="https://www.google.com/" class="googlie" target="blank"]A googglie Google link that will open in a new tab[/tklink]</code>
<ul>
<li>Outputs: <code><a class="googlie" href="https://www.google.com/" target="_blank">A googglie Google link that will open in a new tab</a></code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Developers may contribute at https://github.com/cliffordp/tk-shortcode-link</p>
<h4>FYI:</h4>
<ul>
<li>All links have a class of <code>tklink</code> added unless you specify your own class per link (see examples above)</li>
<li>No styling of <code>tklink</code> or otherwise is added via this plugin.</li>
<li>If you don’t know what classes are, you can ignore. It’s for styling (i.e. look and feel).</li>
</ul>


TK Shortcode Link

Create links with a shortcode. It's that simple.

Nicki Faulk

<p>This plugin marks all links in posts as ‘external’ and implements a small bit of javascript to open links in new windows.  Inspired by Mdkart’s Add Lightbox plugin.</p>


Blank Target Replacement

A target=_blank replacement using a small piece of javascript and rel=external.

TK Shortcode Link vs Blank Target Replacement