Description
Lift External Link Notice adds a configurable leaving-site notice for external links. It is designed for websites that need a clear outbound-link disclosure, including financial institutions, healthcare organizations, associations, and other compliance-sensitive sites.
The plugin does not require Elementor, Elementor Pro, popup builders, custom link classes, React, or build tooling. Once activated, it watches normal frontend links, ignores same-domain links, skips whitelisted domains or URLs, and shows a modal notice before the visitor continues to an external site.
Features:
- Intercepts normal external link clicks on the frontend.
- Ignores same-domain, hash, empty, javascript, mailto, tel, admin, and editor links.
- Optional whitelist for trusted domains or full URLs.
- Optional whitelist for all subdomains of the current site domain.
- Continue and cancel button labels can be edited.
- Empty button labels hide that button.
- Overlay, modal, text, title, button, and hover colors.
- Font family selector.
- Pixel-based style controls for modal width, spacing, typography, padding, gaps, and border radius.
- Global responsive controls with optional desktop, tablet, and mobile overrides.
- Live desktop, tablet, and mobile preview in the WordPress admin.
- Overlay click and Escape-key closing options.
- No visitor tracking and no external services.
- Master enable/disable toggle for turning the notice on or off without deactivating the plugin.
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Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate Lift External Link Notice in WordPress.
- Go to Settings > Lift External Link Notice.
- Configure the notice content, whitelist, behavior, and styling.
- Test an external link on the frontend while logged in and logged out.
FAQ
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Does this require Elementor?
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No. This is a standalone WordPress plugin and works without Elementor.
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Does this use a popup builder?
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No. The notice modal is built into the plugin and configured from a normal WordPress settings page.
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Will this affect internal links?
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No. Same-domain links are ignored. You can also whitelist trusted external domains or full URLs.
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Will this always show for external links?
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Yes, unless the link is ignored by design, such as
mailto:,tel:, admin/editor links, same-domain links, or entries you add to the whitelist. -
Does this plugin contact external services or track visitors?
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No. The plugin does not send visitor data to external services and does not track visitors.
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Contributors & Developers
“Lift External Link Notice” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.4
- Derived the plugin URL from the main plugin file so assets load correctly regardless of the installation directory name.
1.0.3
- Updated plugin globals, classes, functions, settings, admin actions, and JavaScript objects to use the unique liftexli prefix.
- Rebuilt the WordPress.org submission package under the lift-external-link-notice slug.
1.0.2
- Shortened the plugin name shown in WordPress plugin info to Lift External Link Notice.
- Updated the plugin author display to Lift Group while keeping it linked to the Lift Group site.
1.0.1
- Added Lift Group branding to the settings page.
- Added a master enable/disable toggle for frontend notice behavior.
1.0.0
- Initial standalone release.