When offering external links on the blog, very often subscribers and visiteurs do not know that they will come out of the latter after a click, for another source. And very often, by following an external link, the visiteurs tend to forget the blog they just visited.

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So the ideal would be to display an index on each external link like on Wikipedia, so as to allow users to visiteurs to open them on new tabs, even if it is true that this behavior can be defined by default from the WordPress visual editor, in particular by clicking on the box “ open link in a new window / new tab"

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In this tutorial, I will show you how to add an icon on each of your external links with the plugin " Outlink Styler ».

How to download and install Outlink Styler

Outlink Styler is not available on WordPress, so I invite you to download it from the publisher website and install it on your WordPress blog. Before downloading, you can view a plugin demo.

After installing and activating the plugin, navigate to the location “ Settings >> Outlink Styler Settings », Because it is on this page that you will configure it.

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The first option Use »Allows you to choose the element to display after each link. You have the choice between the icons " Use Icon And a text Use Text ". By default, the icon is chosen.

Outlink Styler offers a link to an icon representing an external link. You can modify this link with your own on the " External Link Icon Url ". If you are looking for a source of icons, then you can check the list of icons available on FatIcons.

If, on the other hand, you want to add a text after an icon, then you can replace the text '[External Link]'of the field' External Link text By another such as [External Link] ».

When you're done, don't forget to save your settings.

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To restore your settings, I invite you to click on the button « Restore Settings ", Located lower. This option will allow you to reset the plugin defaults.

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By consulting a page or article on your blog, you will notice that each external link is followed by either a mention (when you choose to display a text), or a specific icon (when you choose to display an icon).

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That's it for this tutorial on adding a hint after the various external links on your WordPress blog. Feel free to share this tutorial if you liked it.