How To Add NoFollow Attribute To Blog Roll Links

This tutorial is going to be straight forward. It’s designed for wordpress bloggers who want to display their blog roll links but don’t want to pass any Page Rank (PR) juice to the links

Simply open wp-admin/edit-link-form.php and look for the code below:                  

<td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span> <?php /* translators: xfn: http://gmpg.org/xfn/ */ _e(‘friendship’) ?> </span></legend>

Immediately after the above code, copy and paste the code below

<label for=”nofollow”> 
<input class="valinp" type="radio" name="friendship" value="nofollow" id="nofollow" <?php xfn_check(‘friendship’, ‘nofollow’, ‘radio’); ?> /> <?php /* translators: xfn: http://gmpg.org/xfn/ */ _e(‘nofollow’) ?>
</label>

Save the file and log into your dashboard. Click on Links and select a link you want to add the nofollow attribute to.

In the editing page, scroll down to Link Relationship (XFN) section and under friendship select the nofollow radio button.

Scroll back up and update the link. Navigate to your site and check if that link has been nofollowed. You can get a Firefox nofollow add on from Zachary Fox.

P.S: The above tutorial was done with Wordpress Version 2.8.1 in mind. I’m not so sure if it will vary with past wordpress versions.

Also make sure to back up the edit-link-form.php file before editing it should in case anything goes wrong.

This is a modified & updated version of Pinoy Console’s How To Add “Nofollow” Attribute In Your Blogroll

Feel free to let me know how this worked out for you.

Update: I just stumbled on this plug-in that automatically adds nofollow to ALL your blogroll links. Unlike the file hack above, you can’t choose which links to follow and which not to.

Here’s the download page: Nofollow Blogroll Links.

Enjoy

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