WordPress Automatic Links plugin
2009-03-04 10:58pm by AnnHere’s a super simple WordPress plugin that automatically adds HTML anchor tags to plain text links and email addresses embedded in the content of posts and pages (WordPress already does this by default for comments). It also gives you the option to set the nofollow attribute value on all automatically generated hyperlinks.
Really nice, did exactly what it says without any other modifications
Thanx ^^
Thank you very much! I’m working on a blog that will have pages of URLs and would have been a major headache to manually link each one. Your plugin is such a time and patience saver! It really should be a standard option in WordPress…
You’re welcome! Glad to see that people are finding it useful!
It’s strange that automatic hyperlinking isn’t enabled by default in post and page content, especially since WP comments already work this way…
thanks a lot. was unable to find such a plugin on worpress dot org.
is it listed?and what about a plugin to automatically link internal pages?
Thanks for making this, Ann! Looking at the code, I see you say you used the make_clickable function from bbpress. But there’s one in WordPress too. Any reason not to hook into that?
The bbPress function is pretty similar… honestly I just happened to be looking at bbPress source code at the time.
The only problem I see with using the built in make_clickable function is that it automatically nofollows all the links, which you may or may not want.
nice plugin… it very useful in my blog
thank you
This is a nice way to insert links in articles. I require the algo behind it.
how about setting the target attributes?
how about setting the target=”" attributes of the anchor tags?
Good idea, Mr. Dawson… new version with your requested option available now!
nice one, thanks
How do I disable it on individual posts? For instance, if I’m explaining that you should email “sample@sample.com”, I don’t want that to be a hyperlink.
Great plugin otherwise!
Scott
Fantastic plugin – I could not find one like this after searching and searching the plugins and this does *exactly* what I need! The ability to target is fantastic – and it just saves me time.
Thank you SO much!
Hi, I don’t quite understand how to set this up. I have the plugin activiated but no instructions. ?????
I love this plugin. Or I did. As of this morning, it’s not working. I’ve not updated my WordPress to 2.9.
Super fantastic plugin, works as advertised! Thanks for sharing!