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External Permalinks Free

Link a post or page to an external URL

Give any post or page an external URL. It still appears in your archives, menus and grids, but clicking it goes straight to the other site.

Download free or read the External Permalinks docs

Free on WordPress.org, with nothing locked behind Pro.

in the free plugin
Free
setting to configure
1
developer hooks
3
last improved in
3.1.0
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Why you need External Permalinks

Press mentions, partner pages and resources hosted elsewhere need to sit in your post lists, but linking them out usually means custom code in the theme.

What External Permalinks does

  • Per item Set the external URL from the editor.
  • Choose post types Enable it only on the post types that need it.

What you can configure

1 settings, all in the free plugin.

  • Post Types Select the post types to enable external permalinks for.

Where External Permalinks helps

  • An account manager walking a client through WP Extended on a laptop in a café

    Press and coverage

    List articles about you that live on news sites.

  • A photographer in her studio with WP Extended open on a desktop monitor

    Resource libraries

    Mix your own guides with external links in one archive.

For developers

External Permalinks has 3 hooks for changing its behaviour per project, without editing the plugin.

All External Permalinks hooks
filter functions.php or a Code Snippet
add_filter( 'wpextended/external-permalinks/excluded_post_types', function ( $value ) {
    // Return the value you want to use
    return $value;
} );
  • external-permalinks/excluded_post_types
  • external-permalinks/redirect_status
  • external-permalinks/translations

Recent changes

The latest updates to External Permalinks, from the WP Extended changelog.

Full changelog
  1. v3.1.0 22 Sept 2025
    • new

      Native Block Editor support.

External Permalinks questions

External Permalinks documentation

Yes. It is in the free plugin.

Pairs well with

All Content Management

Get External Permalinks free

External Permalinks is in the free plugin on WordPress.org, alongside 34 other free modules you can switch on when you need them.

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