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.

jstar198

<p>You know how <code>target="_blank"</code> is invalid in XHTML strict? Well, this plugin uses a Javascript hack to get around this. The code was originally taken from this thread I came across: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/11165.htm</p>
<p>For posts/pages, the plugin will automatically captures any <code>target="_blank"</code>‘s inserted by the WP editor and modifies them to keep the page XHTML Strict valid. Then some small Javascript is inserted into each page which re-inserts <code>target="_blank"</code> so that the functionality is restored <em>after</em> your page has been validated!</p>
<p>For non-post/page content (eg templates/widgets), simply give your outbound links a class name of <code>external</code>, and the rest will be done automatically while keeping your page XHTML valid.</p>
<h3>To Do</h3>
<p>Future things I plan to add:</p>
<ul>
<li>Integration into WP edit page to allow use of plugin without manually editing HTML.</li>
</ul>


External Linker

Allows you to get around using target="_blank" by converting all your outbound links using Javascript.

TK Shortcode Link vs External Linker