Title: Automatic Links
Author: superann
Published: <strong>Març 5, 2009</strong>
Last modified: Setembre 13, 2009

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Automatic Links

 By [superann](https://profiles.wordpress.org/superann/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/automatic-links.zip)

 * [Details](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-links/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-links/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-links/#installation)
 * [Development](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-links/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/automatic-links/)

## Description

A simple WordPress plugin that automatically adds HTML anchor tags to plain text
links and email addresses embedded in the content of posts and pages (WordPress 
already does this by default for comments). It also gives you the option to set 
the rel=”nofollow” and target attributes on all automatically generated hyperlinks.

## Installation

 1. Upload the folder `automatic-links` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. (Optional) Navigate to “Settings -> Automatic Links” and set your options.

## FAQ

None.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great plugin until WP4.4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-until-wp44/)󠁿

 [iansdell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iansdell/) Setembre 3, 2016

This plugin has been a wonderful timesaver which I’ve used on many sites. However,
it hasn’t been updated for six years and seems to have come to its lifetime’s end:
in WordPress 4.4, it causes some picture captions to be replaced with code. It would
be great if the developer tweaked it!

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/automatic-links/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Automatic Links” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ superann ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/superann/)

[Translate “Automatic Links” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/automatic-links)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/automatic-links/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/automatic-links/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/automatic-links/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/automatic-links/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Added option to set the link target attribute.

#### 1.0

 * Initial version. Uses make_clickable function from bbPress 0.9.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **17 anys ago**
 *  Active installations **60+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-links/)
 * Tags
 * [automatic links](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/automatic-links/)[hyperlinks](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hyperlinks/)
   [links](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/links/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://bal.wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-links/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ superann ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/superann/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/automatic-links/)

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://superann.com/donate/?id=WP+Automatic+Links+plugin)