Internal Link Styling

How internal links (links from your site to other pages on YOUR site) LOOK on your public site — color, weight, underline, icon, and where they open.

Get there

Linkilo → Settings → Internal Link Styling (under the Front-end Display group).

You'll see a "Front-end only" badge at the top — these settings change how internal links render publicly, NOT which links Linkilo suggests.

The page has three cards.

Card 1: How internal links behave

Behavior of internal links — where they open and what signals get attached.

Open in a new tab

When ON, internal links open in a new browser tab when clicked. Most sites leave this OFF for internal links — readers don't expect new tabs for same-site links.

Tell Google not to follow

Adds rel="nofollow". Most sites leave this OFF for internal links — internal links are how Google understands your site structure, so passing PageRank between them is normally desirable.

Extra link tags

Checkboxes:

• noopener (safer new-tab opens) — recommended IF links open in new tabs
• noreferrer (hides where the click came from) — privacy option

Leave both off if you don't need them.

Card 2: How internal links look

Colors and text style.

Use my theme's link style

When ON, Linkilo doesn't change how internal links look (the color and text-style settings below are ignored). Your theme decides. Useful if you have custom theme CSS you want to keep.

Link colour

Color picker. Pick whatever color matches your brand.

Text style

Checkboxes for Bold, Underline, Italic. Most sites pick one (typically underline-on-hover via the theme, but you can override here).

Custom CSS class

Appended to every internal link Linkilo manages. Useful for targeting via your theme's CSS.

Example: if you add my-internal-link here, every Linkilo-managed link gets class="my-internal-link" and you can style it from your theme's CSS.

Card 3: Link icons

A small icon next to each internal link. Requires Font Awesome (which Linkilo loads automatically).

Icon style

Dropdown:

• No icon (default) — clean, no decoration
• Arrow icon — small arrow next to the link
• Verified (check) icon — checkmark next to the link

Position

Before or after the link text.

Colour

Color picker for the icon (separate from the link color).

Hide icon when link wraps an image

When ON, links whose anchor is an image (like a thumbnail) don't get the icon — useful so icons don't appear inside thumbnails.

Hide icon on these domains

Comma-separated list of domains that should skip the icon. Useful for any internal links to subdomains or related properties where you don't want decoration.

Click Save Settings at the bottom.

Common Questions

Will this change links I've already added?

Yes — it changes how they LOOK on your live site. The HTML and URLs don't change. If you turn off styling, links revert to your theme's default style.

My theme is overriding the color

Some themes have very specific CSS rules. Try:

1. Adding a Custom CSS class here, then targeting it in your theme's custom CSS.
2. Toggling Use my theme's link style ON and styling internal links entirely from your theme.

Internal vs External — which is which?

Linkilo determines this by domain. Links to your site's domain = internal. Links to other domains = external.

If you have multiple sites you own (sister sites, alternates), and want links to them treated as external (e.g., to apply nofollow), add them to the "Treat these URLs as external links" list in Content Filters.