DoFollow Case by Case vs External Links – nofollow, noopener & new window

This WordPress plugin gives you the possibility to remove the “nofollow” attribute from your wordpress blog’s comments: from the author’s links and/or from the comments text links. This can be done either case by case (editing each comment) or through a white-list of commenters emails, whose comments will allways be dofollow. And don’t forget: Don’t use this plugin if you are using another plugin with similar funcionality. Please read the information about it in the FAQ section. What can I do with this plugin? This plugin allows you to set links in comments to be dofollow instead of nofollow. When editing a comment, now you have the option to remove the rel=”nofollow” attributes from the links contained in them. To make it easier, you can also setup commenters emails whose links in comments should always be dofollow and you can even set their Author URL when commenting to be dofollow. On the other side you can also define URLs that when contained in a comment are always dofollow, so that you can setup links to your own sites to be always dofollow. In order to add commenter’s emails or URLs to the white list, please go to DoFollow > DoFollow. DoFollow > White List Email: The Email White List contains a list of emails of commenters, whose links in comments are allways dofollow. And you can also choose to make the Author URL dofollow. By default the Author URL is not followed. Here you can add for example the email addresses of your staff and collaborators. DoFollow > White List URL: The URL White List contains a list of URLs that when linked to in a comment, are always dofollow, nevertheless who links to them. Here you can setup for example links from your sites or from other sites. What ideas is this plugin based on? We were looking for a plugin like Nofollow Case by Case but that worked the other way round. Instead of removing the re=”nofollow” from all comments links and have the possibilty to add the rel=”nofollow” case by case, we wanted to leave the rel=”nofollow” and all comments and have the possibility to remove them only from some comments. And the last plugin we liked is Smart DoFollow which lets you automatically give DoFollow links to authors of comments that are longer than a given number of chars. This is intersting, but very dangerous as today all comment spam is quite long and has many characters. DoFollow Case by Case Plugin in your Language! This first release is avaliable in English and Spanish. In the i18n we have included the necessarry files to translate this plugin. If you would like the plugin in your language and you’re good at translating, please drop us a line at Contact us. Further Reading You can access the description of the plugin in Spanish at: DoFollow Case by Case en castellano. Contact For further information please send us an email.

Manage all external & internal links on your site. Control icons, nofollow, noopener, ugc (User Generated Content), sponsored and if links open in new window or new tab. WP Links plugin was completely rebuilt in v2 and has lots of new features, like noopener, ugc and sponsored values for rel; font icons, internal links options and full WPMU support. Link Scanner – PRO feature Check every single link on your site! See if it’s broken or not, if it’s redirected, what’s the target and rel attribute and what page exactly it’s linking to. This feature is a part of the WP Links PRO plugin. Having problems with spam, bots, or AI scrapers? Have a look at our free Captcha plugin used on over 200,000 sites. Features Manage external and internal links Open links in new window or tab Add follow or nofollow (for SEO) Add noopener and noreferrer (for security) Add ugc (User Generated Content) and sponsored values to rel (Google announcement) Add link icons (FontAwesome and Dashicons) Set other attributes like title and CSS classes Scan complete page (or just posts, comments, widgets) SEO friendly Link Scanner – check all links on your site – PRO feature Exit Confirmation – protect visitors and traffic when external links are clicked – PRO feature Link Rules – create advanced link rules for chosen link groups – PRO feature And more… Network Settings (WPMU support) Use template tag to apply plugin settings on specific contents Set data-attribute to change how individual links will be treated Use built-in actions and filters to implement your specific needs Easy to use After activating you can set all options for external and internal links on the plugins admin page. On the fly The plugin filters the output and changes the links on the fly. The real contents (posts, pages, widget etcetera) will not be changed in the database. When deactivating the plugin, all contents will be the same as it was before. GDPR compatibility We are not lawyers. Please do not take any of the following as legal advice. WP External Links does not track, collect or process any user data. Nothing is logged or pushed to any 3rd parties. We also don’t use any 3rd party services or CDNs. Based on that, we feel it’s GDPR compatible, but again, please, don’t take this as legal advice. Like the plugin? Rate it to support the development. If you’re having problems with SSL or HTTPS try our free WP Force SSL plugin. It’s a great way to enable SSL and fix SSL problems. Documentation After activating you can set all options for external and internal links. Data attribute “data-wpel-link” Links being processed by this plugin will also contain the data-attribute data-wpel-link. The plugin could set the value to external, internal or exclude, meaning how the link was processed. You can also set the data-attribute yourself. This way you can force how the plugin will process certain links. When you add the value ignore, the link will be completely ignored by the plugin: Go to somedomain Action “wpel_link” Use this action to change the link object after all plugin settings have been applied. add_action( 'wpel_link', ( $link_object ) { if ( $link_object->is_external() ) { // get current url $url = $link_object->getAttribute( 'href' ); // set redirect url $redirect_url = '//somedom.com?url='. urlencode( $url ); $link_object->setAttribute( 'href', $redirect_url ); } }, 10, 1 ); The link object is an instance of WPEL_Link class. Action hook “wpel_before_apply_link” Use this action to change the link object before the plugin settings will be applied on the link. You can use this filter f.e. to ignore individual links from being processed. Or change dynamically how they will be treated by this plugin. add_action( 'wpel_before_apply_link', function ( $link ) { // ignore links with class "some-cls" if ( $link->has_attr_value( 'class', 'some-cls' ) ) { $link->set_ignore(); } // mark and treat links with class "ext-cls" as external link if ( $link->has_attr_value( 'class', 'ext-cls' ) ) { $link->set_external(); } }, 10 ); Filter hook “wpel_apply_settings” When filter returns false the plugin settings will not be applied. Can be used when f.e. certain posts or pages should be ignored by this plugin. add_filter( 'wpel_apply_settings', '__return_false' ); See FAQ for more info.