WebTechee

Smart External Links Manager detects external links in post content and adds:
<ul>
<li>target=”_blank”</li>
<li>rel=”noopener noreferrer”</li>
</ul>
Internal links, anchor links, mailto, and tel links are ignored. 
This plugin is intentionally lightweight and works out of the box without configuration.

Webtechee External Links Security

Automatically adds secure attributes to external links in post content.

jrt341

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.
The plugin offers the following customization options:
<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>
Read the FAQ for information on how to customize the CSS used in this plugin.

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  …

Webtechee External Links Security vs Traction External Links Speed Bump