Wordpress Plug-in Bug in NoFollow Links In Posts Plug-in
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: bloggingDue to the fact that Dragonblogger.com was still rated a PR of 0 and my personal and poetry blogs were recently related PR1 and PR2 respectively, I concluded I have too many outbound links on my primary technology and entertainment blog. I have decided to more strictly enforce a NoFollow policy to try and keep some of my PR Juice from flowing out of my site and into other web sites in order to retain a better page rank, since traffic and user visits were not enough apparently.
So I have downloaded and installed the Wordpress NoFollow Links in Posts Plug-IN from the Wordpress archive, and it does work somewhat. You can set posts in specific categories and they will automatically add “rel=nofollow” to the link’s after the specified # of days you enter. There is a bug in the plug-in however, if you try to use the “all” instead of the categories individually, then every single link will have a rel=nofollow added even ones that are before the date.
The default is to not add no follow to anything, you must individually select your categories and then specify the # of days before automatically appending “nofollow”. I have generally kept to a 30 day policy on all of my categories that link out, I will leave all links intact for 30 days with follow. This way some blogging friends gain the benefit for a while, as well as paid posts which require follow tags will be satisfied and met for the duration of the paid post.
The -1 for “all” is misleading, and really means it will not add nofollow to all your posts, if you put 30, 60 or any number besides -1, then every link will have “nofollow” added and you won’t be able to get some paid posts approved (PayU2Blog and PayPerPost require DoFollow on links).
I was hoping to just set all posts to expire Follow after 30 days, and am hoping this feature gets fixed eventually.
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-Dragon Blogger
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January 5th, 2009 at 12:36 am
There is a batch categories plugin that allows you to mass recategorize. I recommend writing down the categories you want nofollowed and send them all there except for the ones you don’t want there. I have several categories now set to nofollow after 30 days, not just consumerism. It’s all can feel like a crazy game sometimes man. Hang in there. Your shredding in my book.
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January 5th, 2009 at 2:30 am
I was under the impression that Wordpress adds the nofollow link automatically without any need for a plug in.
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April 10th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Great tech blog, you may want to join our new forum then. Cheers
June 18th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Hello,
I would like to inform everyone that the support and development of this (Nofollow Links in Posts) plugin has been discontinued due to personal reasons. Anyone who wishes to modify or update the plugin can do so freely with the condition that the current GPL license are kept intact.
Sincerely,
Ibnu Asad
June 18th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Thanks for the update, hope someone picks it up.