diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 10f50a701..95c524b91 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #baseurl: /seek
 
-remote_theme: ELIXIR-Belgium/elixir-toolkit-theme@4.2.0
+remote_theme: ELIXIR-Belgium/elixir-toolkit-theme@5.0.0
 
 current_seek_version: "1.17.0"
 current_docker_tag: "1.17"
diff --git a/_sass/_custom_classes.scss b/_sass/_custom_classes.scss
index 31edf1658..0cb1feb56 100644
--- a/_sass/_custom_classes.scss
+++ b/_sass/_custom_classes.scss
@@ -101,25 +101,3 @@ main .navigation-tiles p {
     }
 }
 
-
-/*-----Show external links with icon------*/
-//.external::after {
-//   content: "↗️";
-//}
-/* Add an indicator after external links that'll open in a new window. */
-#content .external::after,
-footer ul .external::after {
-    /* ↗, but nicer. SVG adapted from Inter's rendition of "↗". */
-    content: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='no'%3F%3E%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 12 12' version='1.1' id='svg1' width='12' height='12'%3E%3Cpath d='M 7.6490176,0 C 7.2259314,0 6.8841158,0.33671562 6.8841158,0.75348946 c 0,0.41677384 0.3418156,0.75348944 0.7649018,0.75348944 H 9.6258104 L 4.8141006,6.2492535 c -0.2987899,0.2943316 -0.2987899,0.7723267 0,1.0666587 0.2987896,0.2943318 0.7840244,0.2943318 1.0828141,0 L 10.708625,2.5736375 v 1.9472993 c 0,0.416774 0.341816,0.7534895 0.764901,0.7534895 0.423086,0 0.764902,-0.3367155 0.764902,-0.7534895 V 0.75348946 C 12.238428,0.33671562 11.896612,0 11.473526,0 Z M 1.9122544,0.75348946 C 0.85573386,0.75348946 0,1.5964559 0,2.6372133 v 7.5348947 c 0,1.040757 0.85573386,1.883724 1.9122544,1.883724 H 9.561272 c 1.05652,0 1.912254,-0.842967 1.912254,-1.883724 V 7.5348946 c 0,-0.4167736 -0.341816,-0.7534893 -0.764901,-0.7534893 -0.423086,0 -0.7649021,0.3367157 -0.7649021,0.7534893 v 2.6372134 c 0,0.207209 -0.1721028,0.376745 -0.3824509,0.376745 H 1.9122544 c -0.2103479,0 -0.3824509,-0.169536 -0.3824509,-0.376745 V 2.6372133 c 0,-0.2072096 0.172103,-0.3767448 0.3824509,-0.3767448 h 2.6771561 c 0.4230865,0 0.7649017,-0.3367156 0.7649017,-0.7534896 0,-0.4167738 -0.3418152,-0.75348944 -0.7649017,-0.75348944 z' id='path1' style='fill:%23999999;fill-opacity:1;stroke-width:0.0237243' /%3E%3C/svg%3E%0A");
-    /* inline => inline-block, so that we can give it a height */
-    display: inline-block;
-    height: 0.5em;
-    padding-inline: 0.2em;
-    aspect-ratio: 1;
-    line-height: 1;
-    vertical-align: text-top;
-
-    @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
-        filter: invert(100%);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/assets/js/main.js b/assets/js/main.js
index 60126d470..f74430aaf 100644
--- a/assets/js/main.js
+++ b/assets/js/main.js
@@ -13,19 +13,6 @@ $(document).ready(function () {
     anchors.add('h2:not(.no-anchor)');
 })
 
-/**
- * Function to open external links in separate tab
- */
-$(document).ready(function () {
-    for (var c = document.getElementsByTagName("a"), a = 0; a < c.length; a++) {
-        var b = c[a];
-        if (b.getAttribute("href") && b.hostname !== location.hostname) {
-            b.target = "_blank";
-            b.rel = "noopener";
-            b.classList.add("external");
-        }
-    }
-});
 
 /**
  * Settings for side navigation