Does this add rel=”noopener” to external links?

I’ve never heard of that attribute, and no the plugin does not add that attribute. It could – it’s just a matter of a little bit of code to support another attribute.

Do you have a link to documentation?

Hm, I found some documentation – so it has to do with security especially blocking certain cross-site-whatever-attacks … hmm…

I take it this is a site-wide attribute to set on all outgoing links irregardless of the destination domain? Ditto with rel=noreferrer would be site-wide on all outgoing links?

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We have holidays here so it’s been chaotic.

Yes, it would be a sitewide attribute, and so would rel=”noreferrer”. However, as I was looking at more information to share with you about this, I found some posts saying that WordPress started automatically adding both of those beginning in version 4.6 or 4.7. If that is the case, it wouldn’t be needed in the plugin.

However, I do not see rel=”noopener noreferrer” added to my source code wherever I have external links (which would imply WP isn’t adding it), while I do see target=”_blank” in my source code (inserted from your plugin).

So I’m not really sure what WordPress is doing or not doing.

Sorry to be clear as mud there.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by dalecameronlowry.

Google wants this tag, WordPress has started using it but it’s not being found when using this plugin.

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/noopener