New DoFollow Plugin

by Greg on October 30, 2007

We’ve had a lot of great response to our DoFollow OPML project. While we work on compiling the list, I thought I would go ahead and release a new DoFollow plugin. We have been playing with several different plugins lately. Of all the ones we could find, we like the original by Kimmo Souminen the best. However, I wanted to have more control on a per-comment basis, so I had Dax add to it.

Once you’ve installed and activated it, you will be able add individual NoFollows or DoFollows from the comment moderation screen.

dofollow1 New DoFollow Plugin
You will also find a new box on your editor that will allow you to add NoFollow to the comments of a single post.  

dofollow2 New DoFollow Plugin

You can download it here.

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Increase Search Engine Traffic October 31, 2007 at 5:14 pm

I like the idea of being to control what comments recieve a nofollow and which don’t. I’ll probably be upgrading to this plugin soon.

Greg October 31, 2007 at 5:17 pm

I like the control as well. And thanks for giving me the opportunity to show how it works. :)

feir November 1, 2007 at 11:46 pm

Thannks for the plugin. But I wonder where is it possible to follow or nofollow the comment in comments list instead of from the comment moderation screen.

Ken November 2, 2007 at 6:40 pm

Greg before downloading this I was wondering does it matter what version of WP you are using?

Hawaii SEO November 3, 2007 at 7:09 pm

Cool! – I’m just glad you didn’t use me in your demonstration. It looks a little like a tutorial on how to keep that Jeremy Luebke guy from spamming your comments. ;^)

Lars Bachmann November 6, 2007 at 3:02 pm

Hey, Great plugin. I am already using the DoFollow plugin, but i seems like a good idea that you can control which link that need the do- or nofollow tag.

Nik November 20, 2007 at 12:42 am

I think people are slowly realising that a dead forum is no good, I think the DoFollow plugin will become more popular in the future

John Honeck November 27, 2007 at 7:20 pm

I like the plug-in, and am going to write about it soon, but I have one concern. It when nofollowing a specific post the author’s link is nofollowed, but any links within the comment still are followed. If I’m nofollowing a comment I’d like it to nofollow the links within the comment itself as well.

Craig December 4, 2007 at 6:19 pm

I’m a big fan of yours from WMR – I can only hope the dofollow movement grows.

CBR December 6, 2007 at 2:38 am

I hope the trend to dofollow grows and it’s good news to see high profile SEO’s getting involved.

Warhammer December 10, 2007 at 12:42 pm

I would agree with John Honeck, it would be cool if you could get it to sift through the comment and either slice out or nofollow the links? is that possible?

Life is Colourful December 12, 2007 at 6:00 am

Just posted about this plugin at my blog, have some confusion though – would be great if you look at it, Greg!

SarahG December 30, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Anyone having problems getting this to work on 2.3+ versions? I can only get it working on 2.2.* versions :(

SarahG December 31, 2007 at 11:01 am

After a bit of comparison, line 535 needs changing to below to have it work for both version 2.2.* and 2.3+. Code can probably be done better, I’m not too hot on pattern matching!

$replace="/\<a href=\"comment\.php\?action=deletecomment&[amp|#038] ;[dt=spam&]?[amp;|#038;]?p=(.*)&[amp|#038] ;c=(.*)&(.*)Spam\<\/a\>/Um";

Paul January 3, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Im going to install this too, Thanks

Rob January 8, 2008 at 9:14 am

This is great. At the moment I use semDoFollow, but this new plugin has a lot more control without having to remove rel=”nofollow” from the actual code at times.

Jeremy Luebke January 11, 2008 at 9:45 pm

haha how did I become the poster boy for nofollow

John Honeck January 16, 2008 at 10:04 am

Does not work with 2.3.2. The nofollow or follow option is not available under the individual comments section.

SarahG January 20, 2008 at 2:13 pm

John Honeck, check my fix in the comment 4 above yours for WordPress 2.3+

Andrew Kelsall January 25, 2008 at 5:11 pm

Hi, Ive installed the nofollow pluggin, but can’t seem to find any options for it in my wordpress admin area. It activated ok…any pointers? Thanks

John Honeck January 31, 2008 at 1:48 pm

Thanks SarahG, I did try what you said but I still don’t get the nofollow/follow links within comment administration.

John Hunter February 14, 2008 at 5:22 pm

Great job, this is exactly what I was looking for – the ability to nofollow selected posts. Awesome.

Agni March 2, 2008 at 4:14 am

It is actually a great plugin. I was seeking for this plugin for a couple of days and a friend of mine referrer to this post. This one is a great tool and we can also make some posts as nofollow.

Thank you for your kind information!

fucc March 3, 2008 at 12:38 pm

tested on my second site, great!

Draver March 5, 2008 at 2:49 am

An awesome plugin. I got what I was looking for. This plugin has got lots of unique features which cannot be found in other ones.

Thank you very much for sharing this tool, it was a great help.

Gurt March 10, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Works greate on WP 2.3.3 with the fix. Good job.

Ardi Panondan March 11, 2008 at 5:26 am

Great dofollow plugin. I ‘ll try to my blogs. Thanks for sharing.

Ivo March 30, 2008 at 6:12 pm

Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow:(
I hope the dofollow movement grows.

Anders Saugstrup April 6, 2008 at 1:29 am

Hey great plugin! This controll option will be usefull for me in the future – so far dofollowing did not attract any new spam though.

Concept I October 6, 2008 at 10:04 am

Great plugin. I just found it, installed it and now I’m at dofollower as well :-)

Soren October 12, 2008 at 11:50 pm

Great. I have just installed the sem-dofollow plugin, but this is so must better.

Sperad the word – Fight the nofollow tyranny

George Loughton December 5, 2008 at 1:38 am

Brilliant! Definitely the way to go in web logs. Thank you for the development initiative and for sharing!

Justin Parks December 13, 2008 at 7:25 am

Hi guys, not sure if im 100% correct but I had the do follow plugin by Kimmo Suominen & Dax installed and I wanted to try the one you provide. With the new version of wordpress (v2.7) it seems to be causing an error when I go to the admin page. Just thought I ought to give you a heads up.

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