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How can I make a list with all external links?
7 replies · Started by Yolanda on July 2, 2022
Hi there,
My sites has many articles with links to external archives for family heritage. Because the amount of articles and archives keeps growing, I'd like to create a page with the collection of all these external links.
I've Googled and searched for plugins, but can't find what I want. Can you give me a tip how to create this?
Thank you,
Yolanda, NL
https://www.yory.nl/
Hi there,
are you wanting WordPress to automatically gather up all external links on your site and display them on one page ?
Yes, because I now have so many links spread out over my site.
I've also checked my Google SC but I can't find a list their either. Otherwise I would copy/paste manualy it on a regular basis.
So I want to create 1 seperate page with 'All links'.
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P.s. I've found this tip https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/138783/how-to-list-all-external-urls-that-i-have-posted-on-my-wordpress-blog?newreg=88bc541e327143e6b40ea82c442a452e
but as it's from 8 years ago, I'm having doubts if that still works.
That code in the Accepted reply should still work, the fundamentals are the same.
But that code would come with a pretty high overhead, as its having to query every post on your site, and scrape the content for links with a specific domain.
Maybe it would be best to just analyze the sites links and look for external links and then manually create the list?
There are a few sites that do this eg.
I've investigated that tool, but in the free version it's not giving me a full list of all external links.
Actually, I don't need a separate plugin, a copy-paste list (in Google SC?) would be good as well. But as far as I can see, they don't provide such thing.
Well, I just let it go. Searching for this question shows me that more users would like to do this, but I haven't found a clear answer yet.
Thanks for you advise, David!
Yolanda
Reading this support topic, and although the OP had issues, it sounds like this plugin may be able to find all links
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-it-show-all-external-links/
Thanks again David, that might be exactly what I'm looking for!
You're welcome
