Kirill Dyatlov

<p>Closes all the external links from indexing. Automatically replaces all outgoing links with tag span</p>


URlToSpan

Closes all the external links from indexing. Automatically replaces all outgoing links with tag span

jrt341

<p>Some websites for compliance reasons or just because they want to need to provide the user with a notice when a link is clicked that is not in that websites control. Traction External Links Speed Bump is a simple no frills plugin that provides a basic speed bump overlay when a link is clicked on a site that doesn’t match the site host’s domain name.</p>
<p>The plugin offers the following customization options:</p>
<ol>
<li>Omitted Domains – Enter a comma separated list of domain names that you don’t want to trigger the speed bump.</li>
<li>Omitted Links – Enter a comma separated list of links that you don’t want to trigger the speed bump.</li>
<li>Customize Text – Customize the speed bump text as well as the continue and cancel button text.</li>
</ol>
<p>Read the FAQ for information on how to customize the CSS used in this plugin.</p>


Traction External Links Speed Bump


Seems to be working fine in WordPress 6.2.2.



The only thing I've noticed is it creates a double slash in the URL which causes an issue for SEO  as they will be interpreted as stand-alone URLs, which can result in duplicate content issues.



Example... these show up in the <head>:



<link rel='stylesheet' id='trelsb_frontend_style-css' href='...domain.com/wp-content/plugins/traction-external-links-speed-bump//css/traction-external-links-speed-bump.css?ver=6.2.2' media='all'/>
 
<script src='...domain.com.com/wp-content/plugins/traction-external-links-speed-bump//js/traction-external-links-speed-bump.js?ver=6.2.2' id='trelsb_frontend_script-js'></script>




You can see the double slash "traction-external-links-speed-bump//"










Still working great!

Activates a speed bump on all external links and gives site owner the ability to enter a list of domains or specific links that when clicked will not  …

URlToSpan vs Traction External Links Speed Bump