URL’s can be internal, external to a site or URL’s pointing to a specific file type.But not all user’s are not aware of the link.Link Indication is a wordpress plugin that can add CSS class attributes to external links and optionally specific attributes to any other link or file type.
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The plugin adds a new attribute to the hyperlinks on the blog, and supports the following link types with different CSS styles for each link type.
- External links: General links to external websites such as google.com, wordpress.org etc.
- FTP links: Links to FTP server (ftp://…).
- mailto links: E-mail links, e.g. mailto:test@site.com.
- Internal links: All internal links.
- Image links: All links containing an image (<img> tags inside the <a> tag).
It also supports user defined file type links to either External URL or File Extension.
The CSS can be defined for example as below in the link-indication_style.css file in the plugin folder or optionally in your theme’s CSS file.
a.lidoc { padding-right: 12px; background: url(images/doc.png) no-repeat right; }
The link indication can be selective applied to either
- to content and comments [default]
- to content only and not to comments
- to the entire blog incl. header, sidebar, footer, etc.
The plugin can also add Websnapr preview thumbnails, ‘nofollow’ attribute and target=”_blank” to the hyperlinks.
