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WP External Links 2.63

Does WP External Links work with WordPress 6.8.1 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-07-12 05:37:35 UTC.

Summary

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Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

WP External Links

WP External Links → Internal Links

WP External Links → Excluded Links

WP External Links → Exceptions

WP External Links → Link Rules

WP External Links → Exit Confirmation

WP External Links → Link Checker

WP External Links → PRO

WP External Links → Support

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.405 s	0.396 s	-0.009 s	3.51 MiB	3.8 MiB	+ 302.74 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.206 s	0.230 s	+0.024 s	3.57 MiB	3.87 MiB	+ 301.69 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.785 s	0.937 s	+0.152 s	6.06 MiB	6.42 MiB	+ 365.85 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.600 s	0.329 s	-0.271 s	3.52 MiB	3.8 MiB	+ 284.24 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.231 s	0.205 s	-0.026 s	3.5 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 288.64 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.333 s	0.404 s	+0.071 s	3.49 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 296.84 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.221 s	0.271 s	+0.050 s	3.5 MiB	3.8 MiB	+ 307.91 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.624 s	0.665 s	+0.041 s	6.05 MiB	6.34 MiB	+ 297.38 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.439 s	0.283 s	-0.156 s	3.5 MiB	3.78 MiB	+ 285.77 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.238 s	0.213 s	-0.025 s	3.52 MiB	3.8 MiB	+ 284.8 KiB
/	0.310 s	0.214 s	-0.096 s	3.44 MiB	3.61 MiB	+ 174.48 KiB
Average	0.399 s	0.377 s	-0.022 s	3.97 MiB	4.25 MiB	+ 290.03 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	SVG	63.1%	8,605	0	20
	PHP	27.6%	3,761	1,605	54
	CSS	7.0%	960	39	4
	JavaScript	2.3%	313	35	3
	JSON	0.0%	2	0	2
Total			13,641	1,679	83

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 7

• wpel-admin-settings
• wpel-exceptions-settings
• wpel-excluded-link-settings
• wpel-external-link-settings
• wpel-first-install
• wpel-internal-link-settings
• wpel-version

PHP Error Log 15 lines

[12-Jul-2025 05:38:01 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "fields" in /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/templates/partials/tab-contents/fields-default.php on line 18
[12-Jul-2025 05:38:01 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_setting() on null in /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/templates/partials/tab-contents/fields-default.php:20
Stack trace:
#0 /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/libs/wprun/class-wprun-base.php(156): include()
#1 /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/templates/settings-page/main.php(49): WPRun_Base_1x0x0::show_template()
#2 /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/libs/wprun/class-wprun-base.php(156): include('...')
#3 /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/includes/admin/class-wpel-settings-page.php(292): WPRun_Base_1x0x0::show_template()
#4 /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/libs/wprun/class-wprun-base.php(250): WPEL_Settings_Page->show_admin_page()
#5 /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/libs/wprun/class-wprun-base.php(218): WPRun_Base_1x0x0::magic_call()
#6 /wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(324): WPRun_Base_1x0x0::__callStatic()
#7 /wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(348): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#8 /wp-includes/plugin.php(517): WP_Hook->do_action()
#9 /wp-admin/admin.php(260): do_action()
#10 {main}
  thrown in /wp-content/plugins/wp-external-links/templates/partials/tab-contents/fields-default.php on line 20

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