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Wordpress No Follow

27 February, 2005 8 Comments ↘ , , , and

Wordpress No Follow plugin is now enabled on somefool, this should disable the no follow tag in comments.

Seems I completely misunderstood the purpose of that plugin, try this one instead.

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  1. 8643 Alex 2005-02-27 21:19:35

    Why do you want it disabled? I think it's pretty logical, someone can't gain pagerank from their own commenting, only by other people linking to them.

  2. 8644 Matthew 2005-02-28 09:15:06

    I just think that its fundamentally wrong for WP to have this on by default, its up to the user to decide. Besides, any spam that gets through will be deleted at the earliest opportunity.

  3. 8739 Angsuman Chakraborty 2005-03-18 15:57:20

    I am not sure I understand you. You mention that it is fundamentally wrong to have this on by default. I agree.

    However the plugin you are using ( http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=101 )will not disable nofollow.
    The description of this plugin states: Automatically inserts rel="nofollow" attributes into any anchor tag it comes across.

    In fact if you look in the source code of this page you will see nofollow tags embedded in comments. NoFollow hasn't been disabled on your site.

    You can use this WordPress 1.5 plugin to disable nofollow from comments and comment author url's. http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-plugin-strip-nofollow-tag-from-comment-urls/

    Let me know your thoughts.

    *MATTHEW:* Sorry you were marked as spam, doesnt seem to like dashes in URLS

  4. 8740 Angsuman Chakraborty 2005-03-18 15:59:44

    Mathew,

    I am not sure I understand you. You mention that it is fundamentally wrong to have this on by default. I agree.

    However the plugin you are using ( http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=101 )will not disable nofollow.
    The description of this plugin states: Automatically inserts rel="nofollow" attributes into any anchor tag it comes across.

    In fact if you look in the source code of this page you will see nofollow tags embedded in comments. NoFollow hasn't been disabled on your site.

    You can use this WordPress 1.5 plugin to disable nofollow from comments and comment author url's.

    Let me know your thoughts.

  5. 8741 Matthew 2005-03-18 16:00:03

    To be honest I never really paid any attention to the plugin, Ill have a look at your link.

  6. 8742 Matthew 2005-03-18 16:01:12

    HA HA! Duplicates. Oh well.

  7. 8743 Angsuman Chakraborty 2005-03-18 16:01:30

    Hey thanks. Sorry I reposted by providing the old format of WordPress posts with a question mark :)
    Please delete any one of my previous post.
    Thanks.

  8. 8751 Matthew 2005-03-21 11:26:13

    its ok, Ill leave them