Title: Remove the data-wpel-link
Last modified: February 7, 2018

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# Remove the data-wpel-link

 *  Resolved [neotrope](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neotrope/)
 * (@neotrope)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-data-wpel-link/)
 * Hi, is there a way to disable this, perhaps with a filter?
 * `data-wpel-link="external"`
 * I have open external links ‘keep as is’ … but still there.
 * Also, issue for RSS feeds:
    This feed is valid, but interoperability with the
   widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following 
   recommendations.
 * line 41, column 0: content:encoded should not contain data-wpel-link attribute(
   42 occurrences) [help]
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [neotrope](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neotrope/).

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 *  [oksanaromaniv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oksanaromaniv/)
 * (@oksanaromaniv)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-data-wpel-link/#post-10102677)
 * Hello,
 * Same question here. It’s strange, because I’m using wp_kses() for filtering content
   for the feed and I use only ‘href’ attribute as allowed for the link tag, but
   the `data-wpel-link="external"` attribute is still there.
 * Thank you,
    Oksana

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 * Last reply from: [oksanaromaniv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oksanaromaniv/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-the-data-wpel-link/#post-10102677)
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