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Category: Comment Plugins
Author: Angsuman Chakraborty
Description: Introduction
WordPress 1.5 (a Weblog/CMS software) comes with "nofollow" enabled by default, with no option to disable it! This plugin provides an option to disable "nofollow" in the most efficient way possible without altering any WordPress code.

Background
Any comments URL's posted by the viewers of a WordPress powered site are automatically tagged as "nofollow".
This means that the search engines wouldn't follow the URL's listed and hence a commenter wouldn't get the benefit of commenting on this site by way of increasing their (websites) search engine rank (like Google rank). This is supposed to act as disincentive to comment spammers. In reality this acts as a strong disincentive to comment on a site by legitimate viewers.

Many of the bloggers, including myself, proactively (and successfully) take steps to prevent comment spam. We seriously doubt the efficacy of this measure in preventing comment spam. I believe in choice. Let the decision to allow/disallow nofollow be in the hands of the bloggers not WordPress authors.

This plugin provides a way to remove the nofollow tags introduced automatically by the WordPress software in the URL's in comments and comment authors. The implementation is as optimum as possible without altering the WordPress code.

Code Description

1. wp_rel_nofollow(), a default filter to add nofollow to hyperlinks, has been removed.
2. make_clickable, a default filter which converts URLs to hyperlinks, have been replaced by a similar function. However this function (make_normal_clickable) doesn't add the nofollow directive.
3. get_comment_author_link() behavior is modified using the strip_nofollow filter which removes the nofollow directive.



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