I’m looking for a plugin or a setting which can add a warning page before redirecting to an external link in any topic, of-course on a self hosted discourse instance. The intention is to prevent phishing attacks.

You can rewrite external links using a theme-component as described by Redirect Page for External URLs - #14 by Johani

Alright. While exploring, I found this plugin GitHub - discourse/discourse-affiliate which I guess can be forked and modified for my use-case. What do you say?

That’s even better, as it will affect how the links are saved in the database.

Oh! Does that mean existing topics won’t have this change if I add this plugin now?

You can Rebake all posts matching a pattern to change old posts.

We also have this old topic on the matter [image] Preventing malicious linking feature Continuing the discussion from How Coinbase Uses Discourse to Educate Customers and Improve SEO : If I understand, that warning would be shown to anyone who clicks on a link posted by …

Warning before external link

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 13, 2021, 4:39am 7

We also have this old topic on the matter

Topic		Replies	Views
Preventing malicious linking Feature	35	4841	December 26, 2017
Redirect Page for External URLs Support	15	3108	March 31, 2022
External Link Shield – Exit Confirmation & Trust Gating Theme component	4	185	January 14, 2026
Link warning outside of forums Feature	4	1013	November 9, 2017
Plugin to rewrite external links on new posts Marketplace	4	671	May 17, 2018

Warning before external link

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