Link Indication Plugin

Purpose:
Link Indication is a WordPress 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x and 2.3.x compatible plugin that applies css class attributes to the links (anchor tags) in your posts, pages, and optionally in your comments. Thereby you can indicate your links, e.g. by images, for characterizing your types of links.
Additionally, you can apply class attributes to special filename extensions, such as .pdf, .xls, .jpg, etc.

The plugin is applied at display time, not while a post is being saved. This means that this plugin can be integrated at any time, it will modify the rendering of existing posts and comments as soon as the plugin is enabled.

Examples for URLs: Examples for filename extensions:

general external link external, Wikipedia external, IMDb external, Flickr external, FTP mailto

PDF File.pdf Archive File.zip Excel File.xls Word File.doc

These URLs and filename extensions are fully configurable and you can add an unlimited number of rules.

Additional options:

Add the _blank attribute (target="_blank") to all external links Apply this plugin to the entire blog incl. header, sidebar, footer, … Apply the class attributes also to images Do not apply this plugin to comments

Downloads

Download Latest Version 3.2
zip, 6.7k

Additionally, I have prepared several icons for download: images.zip (22k).

Also, check out my link collection for more icons.

Installation

Link Indication can be installed in 5 easy steps:

Download the plugin (see “Downloads” above). Decompress the .zip archive and put the file link-indication.php into your plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins/) or in a sub directory of the plugins directory. Open your style.css of your theme in your themes directory (/wp-content/themes/…) and add appropriate CSS rules, for example:

/* For Link Indication plugin */
a.liexternal { padding-right: 12px; background: url(images/link-icon_external.gif) no-repeat right; }
a.liwikipedia { padding-right: 14px; background: url(images/link-icon_wikipedia.gif) no-repeat right; }
a.liimdb { padding-right: 18px; background: url(images/link-icon_imdb.png) no-repeat right; }
a.liftp { padding-right: 13px; background: url(images/link-icon_ftp.png) no-repeat right; }
a.limailto { padding-right: 18px; background: url(images/link-icon_mail.png) no-repeat right; }
a.lipdf { padding-right: 12px; background: url(images/link-icon_pdf.png) no-repeat right;  }

If you want to use icons next to the link, download the images above and put them into your image directory of your theme (i.e. /wp-content/themes/your-theme/images/) and adjust the filename in the css rules.

Enable the plugin in the WordPress Plugins admin page. Go to Options / Link Indication, adjust the settings and save.
Important: You need to save the options when you use this plugin the first time or if you have updated from a previous version.

Frequently Asked Questions

Question: I have problems when using the Post Teaser plugin and Link Indication. Can you help?
Answer: With Post Teaser plugin version 3.7, the author Jonathan has fixed an issue that caused empty Post Teaser options when updating Link Indication. Question: In the Internet Explorer, sometimes the icon is not displayed after the link. Why?
Answer: This is an IE bug, and you can see this issue also e.g. on Wikipedia.
Here you can see how to solve it: Inline Wrap Bug of Internet Explorer Question: Although I’ve followed the instructions, the external links are not changing / no image is being applied.
Answer: Have you refreshed the browser’s cache?

Support: I don’t have the time to support you on the implementation and usage of this plugin. Also the comments at this page have been turned off for this reason. However a donation may help to change my mind and support you anyway :)

How to Report a Bug: Before you report a bug, please make sure you have double-checked that you have followed the above installation instructions correctly.
Please send me your bug report by e-mail.
Bug reports are highly appreciated and will help for the continuous improvement of this plugin, however I can’t promise to get back to you in time regarding your reported bug.

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