Wordpress Plugin: NoFollow Free
NoFollow Free removes the “nofollow” attribute from your wordpress blog’s comments (precisely from the author’s links) and/or from the comments text links and it inserts (if you want) an image band at the top of your pages with the phrase: “NOFOLLOW FREE”.
To encourage your users to submit comments it has some options to replace the nofollow only when the author posted X comments before and put back the nofollow when some blacklisted words are matched. The replacement of the nofollow is also based upon the users type (registered and visitor users). Every option can be customized by the options page “NOFF“.
With the version 1.3, NoFollow Free supports multilingual, you can select which language you prefer in the option page. Actually it supports the following languages:
- English
- Italian
- Spanish (thanks to MundoEnfermo)
- German (thanks to Steini)
- Turkish (thanks to Sinan)
- Swedish (thanks to David)
- French (thanks to Steini)
- Portuguese (thanks to José Luís Carneiro)
- Romanian (thanks to Dan)
- Russian(thanks to Dmitriy)
- Danish (thanks to Strang)
- Latvian (thank to Kaspars)
- Arabic (thanks to Aldirazi)
- Croatian (thanks to Sasha)
- Norwegian (thank to SingelPingel)
- Indonesian (thanks to Apriel and Louis)
- Dutch (thanks to Frederic)
- Hungarian (thanks to Hírkereső)
- Polish (thanks to Adam)
- Japanese (thanks to Seosugane)
I’m looking for someone who could translate the few sentences in other languages, if you can do this I present you a backlink here to thank you. If you would like try to translate it, this is the file with every sentences to be translated, please send it to my email (michele AT befree DOT it) with your blog/site link and name. Thank you!
Since version 1.3.5 NoFollow Free comes with a nice sidebar Widget support to show the top ten charts for the top commenters.
If you would like to know how to use Widgets in your Wordpress blog please refer to Automattic Widgtes howto page. To activate the NoFollow Free Widget go to admin -> Presentation -> Widgets and add the Top Ten Comments widget to your sidebar.
Requirements:
WordPress 2.x or later (I think it works in 1.5 too but I didn’t test it).
Installation:
- Download the plugin nofollow-free
- uncompress it with your preferred unzip/untar program or use the command line: tar xzvf nofollow-free.tar.gz
- copy the entire directory noff in your plugins directory at your wordpress blog (/wp-content/plugins)
- activate the nofollow-free Wordpress plugin at your Plugins admin page
Usage:
When you activate the plugin it just works removing the “nofollow” attribute from your comments authors link, but if you would like have the image band at the top of your pages too, you MUST put the php function <?php noff(); ?> into your template file just below the <body> attribute like this:
<body>
<?php if (function_exists(noff())) noff(); ?>
…
Now you could setup how to show the image band and the rest of the options, go to the wp-admin page -> Options -> NOFF
The plugin is fully configurable, you could set:
- replace nofollow on author/text link ON/OFF
- replace nofollow on registered author/text link ON/OFF
- replace nofollow only if the visitor or the registered users had X previous comments
- put back nofollow if blacklist words are matched
- display number of comments by author
- donate or not a link to nofollow free plugin- Image band ON/OFF
- Position Right/Left
- Colors Green/Red/Orange/blue (see the image below)
- Url to link it to
Changelog:
- 1.5.7 added Japanese language
- 1.5.6 added Polish language
- 1.5.5 added Hungarian language, fixed small bug
- 1.5.4 fixed security bug
- 1.5.3 added Dutch language and fixed count comments bug
- 1.5.2 some minor bugs fixed
- 1.5.1 Added Indonesian language
- 1.5 Fixed a mistake in the widget, added exclude registered users from widget
- 1.4.9 Fixed bug with widget
- 1.4.8 Added Norvegian language
- 1.4.7 Fixed XHTML 1.0 validation
- 1.4.6 Fixed some html tags
- 1.4.5 Added Croatian language
- 1.4.4 Added Arabic language
- 1.4.3 Added Latvian language
- 1.4.2 Added Danish language
- 1.4.1 Added Russian language
- 1.4 fixed minor bug with Widget and previous Worpdress versions
- 1.3.9 fixed Widget
- 1.3.8 Added Romanian language
- 1.3.7 Added Portuguese language
- 1.3.6 Added options to the widget
- 1.3.5 Added French and Swedish language, added Widget support for Top Ten Commenters
- 1.3.4 Added Turkish language
- 1.3.3 Added German language
- 1.3.2 Fixed images directory bug
- 1.3.1 Fixed minor bug
- 1.3 Added multingual support (English, Italian, Spanish)
- 1.2 Fixed the top image banner now it is HTML valid!
- 1.1 Added difference from registered and visitor users so you can remove the nofollow based on type of user.
- 1.0 This is the first final release, added some options, blacklist words, dynamic replace based on number of comments by author and some minor fixes.
- 0.2 Added option to ON/OFF nofollow on author and text comment links.
- 0.1 Initial release.
Any ideas or suggestions will be much appreciate, if you have questions or problems feel free to add a comment here.
NoFollow Free is in the official Wordpress Extend Plugins Directory, every times I’ll upload a new release your wordpress (only for >=2.3) will notify you.
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06:34 on September 13th, 2007
[...] NoFollow Free removes the “nofollow” tag from your Wordpress blog’s comments and provides the option to insert a “NoFollow Free” band at the top of your blog. [...]
07:57 on September 13th, 2007
[...] NoFollow Free removes the “nofollow” tag from your Wordpress blog’s comments and provides the option to insert a “NoFollow Free” band at the top of your blog. [...]
11:09 on September 13th, 2007
nice plugin… I think I will add it to my blog :)
great job
11:25 on September 13th, 2007
can you give a screenshot of a comment with a image band?
11:26 on September 13th, 2007
oh… as far as I see on your blog the image band is placed on the blog, not on each comment… now I see…
anyway - I think it would be an idea to place a mini-band on each comment :)
11:42 on September 13th, 2007
@Chris: Yes the band is at the top of the blog and you could select to display it or not.
The idea to tell that the blog is nofollow free in each comment post is very good, I’ll add it in the next release. Thank you.
12:51 on September 13th, 2007
no problem :)
glad to help & happy that my idea was a good one :)
16:38 on September 13th, 2007
I uploaded the nofollow-free file to my blog/wp-content/plugins, but cannot seem to uncompress it. It shows up in the plugin page, but not in the plugins admin page so that I can activate it.
17:16 on September 13th, 2007
pretty cool plugin, i think i will install.
17:21 on September 13th, 2007
“nofollow” in WP is not a tag - it’s an attribute
17:30 on September 13th, 2007
Disregard my previous post. I figured out how to unzip and now have it working on my blog. Thanks, it is great.
17:56 on September 13th, 2007
@Anna: sorry I missed how to extract a tar.gz file, this is the command line:
`tar xzvf nofollow-free.tar.gz`
@nit-picker: you are right, it’s an html attribute, I misspelled it
18:20 on September 13th, 2007
Thanks for the great plugin. I just installed it on my site.
20:49 on September 13th, 2007
Thank you too, works fine, I like it.
22:59 on September 13th, 2007
A great plugin! One question though… Does the banner always link to your site or can that be configured to send visitors to somewhere like the Wikipedia page on “nofollow”.
23:10 on September 13th, 2007
Thank you Jason, yes you can change the url to link the banner to. Activate the plugin and go to the wp-admin page -> Options -> NOFF
See the screenshot, the last field is where to set it and more options are coming with next releases.
02:27 on September 16th, 2007
Thank You. Very Cool Plugin. Very Easy to setup. Works Fine.
17:23 on September 18th, 2007
Just a note that I have added NoFollow Free to my comprehensive reference for WordPress dofollow plugins. Thanks for taking dofollow to the next level with your remarkable plugin. - Cheers!
03:49 on September 19th, 2007
I installed it on my site but my comments still say relative no follow after them when I view the source. Is there something I am doing wrong? I activated the plugin and chose the choices to let it follow every comment. What else can I do? Please help if you can, and let me know what I could change to make this work.
09:40 on September 19th, 2007
@Jeff: Thank you very much for the great review you write about my plugin, I’ll link it in a special post together the other review I read about NoFollow Free. Thank you again.
@staticbrain: may be you have selected to remove the nofollow only after authors have X comments posted. Set 0 in the second and third field in the options to always remove the nofollow. Try it and let me known.
06:11 on September 21st, 2007
Thank You. Very Cool Plugin! I am from Russia
15:27 on September 25th, 2007
Grazie tante, ottimo plugin! :D
12:33 on September 27th, 2007
Ottimo plugin !
16:20 on October 1st, 2007
Hi
I’ve started using your plugin on my site, let’s see how it turns out. Thanks for creating this very useful plugin.
13:40 on October 2nd, 2007
Ciao Michele, grazie della plugin!
Pensi che si possa trarre da questa uno spunto per fare una “classifica” dei commentatori da inserire come widget per wordpress?
E’ stata fatta una cosa simile per i Dblog…
Un saluto
09:49 on October 4th, 2007
ottimo plugin…
22:58 on October 5th, 2007
Good plugin! You are rule!
05:45 on October 7th, 2007
Hi Michele,
great plugin, thanks for this! I agree, there are other ways to prevent spam, and if someone is going to take the time to leave a thoughtful comment on a blog, and add to the overall discussion, they ought to be rewarded with some link love back to their site… :)
Keep up the great work!!
Christopher Rees
http://www.teamrees.com
http://www.palaestratraining.com
16:49 on October 11th, 2007
با سلام من هم ایرانی هستم و میدونید که ما ایرانی ها کس کن های قهاری هستیم و اینو به تمومه دنیا ثابت کردیم مرد های ایرانی خوب کس میکنن اقا خو ب من هم از تمومشون تشکر میکنم اگه کس باحالی هم تو این روزگار نا مناسب از این نوشته گذر کرد و ما رو خوند توجهی کنه که من هم مردی ایرانی هستم و قدر کس رو خوب میدونم و خوب میکنم اقا خوب منتظرم
20:48 on October 14th, 2007
Thank you, I use your plugin and it works well. It’s great, cheers. I had to change a few things inside the code to suit my needs, but very little! I did a backlink to you, thanks!
04:41 on October 19th, 2007
Hey Michele,
Looks like a great plugin. All I’ve seen is bad press for nofollow on wordpress but it can be a useful tag to conserve pagerank, keeping it centered on the home and category pages instead of contact us and about.
FYI: this blog is not no follow free! Several of the comments are no follow.
Thanks again for a useful contribution to the comunity.
11:33 on October 20th, 2007
Thanks for this plugin.
I’ve started using it just a few weeks ago ‘cuz a friend recommended it to me.
A friend of mine wanted to use it, but he doesn’t speak English at all, so it was a bit anoying to explain every option of your plugin to him.
So I translated it to Spanish. I didn’t change any of the options, just the GUI.
If you’re interested on cheking it out you can mail me or download the translation from my blog.
Here’s the URL:
http://www.mundoenfermo.net/plugin-nofollow-free-en-espanol
Greetz from Mexico!!!
11:27 on October 22nd, 2007
Thank you Kobra, it is possible I’ll release a new version with language support so I can insert various language as extra files.
11:27 on October 27th, 2007
I updated to version 1.3 of your plugin today and when I first went to the NOFF options page there was an error at the top of the page:
Warning: noff_options_subpanel(/homepages/9/d6987xxxx/htdocs/ianblog_wp/wp-content/plugins/nofollow-free/lang-.php) [function.noff-options-subpanel]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/9/d6987xxxx/htdocs/ianblog_wp/wp-content/plugins/nofollow-free/nofollowfree.php on line 244
Warning: noff_options_subpanel() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/homepages/9/d6987xxxx/htdocs/ianblog_wp/wp-content/plugins/nofollow-free/lang-.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /homepages/9/d6987xxxx/htdocs/ianblog_wp/wp-content/plugins/nofollow-free/nofollowfree.php on line 244
each of the options was labelled using the variable instead of the language text. I saved the settings which set it to English and then it was working fine.
Thanks,
Ian
09:39 on October 29th, 2007
I fixed the problem, thank you for the report. The new version will be available as soon as possible.
04:56 on October 31st, 2007
Hi,
Thanks for this great plug-in I used on my http://www.secretpublique.com/ blog.
However, I struggled with the top band because the links toward the image file in the CSS was different from the one I had on the server.
I think you could remove the hassle by naming correctly “noff” directory in the .zip
Or maybe I did something wrong, but if my comment could help…
thanks and keep up the good work
09:04 on October 31st, 2007
@Laurent:
Thank you to report it. There was a bug with the new directory tree I used since version 1.3. Now I fixed it in version 1.3.2, thank you again.
01:37 on November 2nd, 2007
Now the code is also valid HTML and CSS (;-)
01:39 on November 2nd, 2007
Now the code is also valid HTML and CSS, now I like to set links to this site (;-)
23:09 on November 2nd, 2007
I do exactly understand what you mean, helmeloh.
03:25 on November 3rd, 2007
goingtoseminary.com has joined the NoFollow Free revolution. Thanks for the plugin!
14:09 on November 7th, 2007
@Laurin: con la versione 1.3.5 ho incluso un piccolo Widget che fa quello che mi chiedevi, crea nella sidebar una lista dei top commentatori, anch’essa molto configurabile.
Grazie per il suggerimento!
14:49 on November 7th, 2007
Grazie a te! E’ un bijoux e funziona benissimo! L’idea di poter aggiungere una classe o un title diverso dall’h2 poi è favolosa, personalizzabilissima. Grazie! :D
15:21 on November 7th, 2007
ops mi ha mangiato i tag, riscrivo:
1.se fosse possibile in futuro modificare il nome del widget
e
2.ho il dubbio che ci voglia un LI che comprenda il widget, secondo la sintassi di wp infatti la sidebar dovrebbe essere un grande UL che contiene tanti piccoli LI (i widget) che a loro volta contengono liste, h2 etc. infatti se noti il widget non prende il bordo che hanno tutti i widget di base. fammi sapere! te lo commento anche sul tuo blog ;)
14:12 on November 8th, 2007
That is cool.
12:53 on November 9th, 2007
In the plugins list, your plugin says version 1.3.3. even though it’s 1.3.7 that is installed.
12:58 on November 9th, 2007
mmm, strange, please try to download the plugin again and extract it in the plugins directory, it should be version 1.3.7 (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow-free/)
20:35 on November 9th, 2007
Thank you so much for this plugin. I think it is a great way to encourage people to comment on one’s site.
18:23 on November 11th, 2007
Good and really useful post for all readers and specially for me, thanks!
;)
07:27 on November 14th, 2007
An Experiment On Dofollow, Trackback, Proper Blog Commenting And SEO All In One Swoop….
In recent days, I’ve been researching on how to remove the nofollow default in Wordpress blogs, trackbacking and commenting properly following the lead of bloggers like Case Stevens, Teli Adlam, Jim Morris, Andy Beard and so on. There are a lot o…
19:49 on November 15th, 2007
Outra solução para o nofollow…
Ao escrever sobre assuntos polêmicos como pirataria, drogas ou discriminação, torna-se necessário indicar sites sobre o assunto, mas não é desejável a associação a eles. É aí que entra a tag rel=”nofollow”: ela instrui os mecanismos de bu…
22:33 on November 15th, 2007
Do not forget to define the sentence “If you would like to use the Top Commenters widget you can find it in Presentation -> Widgets menu” so that it can be translated to other languages. ;-)
11:22 on November 18th, 2007
Tried to install this plugin twice, but kept getting the error message of:-
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: register_sidebar_widget() in /home/bushie/public_html/no-bull/blog/wp-content/plugins/nofollow-free/nofollowfree.php on line 389
Not only couldn’t I activate the plugin, it stopped the blog from working as well and produced the same error message.
Cheers,
Ric
16:23 on November 18th, 2007
Hi Ric,
I am not Michele, but I try to answer though: Your blog (I assume it is no-bull.net/blog) is running version 2.1 of WordPress. But Michele’s NoFollow plugin can be used with version 2.3 or higher only.
That’s the reason!
16:31 on November 18th, 2007
@Steini & Ric: That’s all right Steini, that’s the Ric’s problem, thank you for your support.
I’ll put a control to avoid that error however I highly recommend you Ric, to upgrade your blog because some old versions of Wordpress are unsecure.
18:09 on November 19th, 2007
Great plugin. I may translate to Thai, if you want.
18:13 on November 19th, 2007
@n-blue: Translations is very appreciated and I love Thailand :)
18:52 on November 19th, 2007
looking for “nofollow free checker”, where I can download it ?
19:08 on November 19th, 2007
and what about nofollow checker where I can download it ?
17:46 on November 20th, 2007
will this plugin work on newer version of wordpress?
17:52 on November 20th, 2007
@My Tech World: yes of course! NoFollow Free is just Wordpress 2.3.1 compatible and I will keep it upgraded for future versions of Wordpress.
21:02 on November 25th, 2007
Hi Michele, thank you very much for this plugin. It helps better create the community atmosphere that bloggers should feel, a small form of mutal respect.
Out of interest, what setting do you have here (a couple of comments required?) because I see that most of the commentators in this thread are actually marked as nofollow..
Thanks again for helping us all help eachother :)
08:51 on November 26th, 2007
@Tim: My NOFF options are for 5 comments before I remove the nofollow, just to prevent spammers. You are welcome
20:45 on November 27th, 2007
That makes sense and will be a useful tool as any blog becomes more popular, that it might then be turned on or up. Currently I have set mine to 0 comments needed, but I will monitor it carefully and maybe increase the required comments in the future if things get silly.
One other idea could be to allow us to add a piece of code, when we need, to make individual comments nofollow? I know there is another plugin offering this, but I prefer your plugin and I dont think both work together. Cheers
15:18 on November 28th, 2007
With the last three versions, I’ve received the following error:
Warning: eregi() [function.eregi]: REG_BADRPT in /home/domainname/wp-content/plugins/nofollow-free/nofollowfree.php on line 112
15:19 on November 28th, 2007
Sorry, I should have said that the error appears in the comment threads where the commenter’s name should be.
16:26 on November 28th, 2007
@Grant: could I see the error in the page? Do you use the blacklist words in the NOFF Options?
I tried a lot of options but I cannot reproduce the bug…
16:32 on November 28th, 2007
Michelle, I do use the blacklist words. I’ve made a zip file of a PDF printout of the page, the rendered page source, a PDF printou of my NOFF options, and all the blacklist words in it. Get it here.
17:25 on December 6th, 2007
Nice Plugin! Thanks for that.
I have a custom sidebar, with links in it so it would be nice, if the plugin can remove absolutly all nofollow… is this on your roadmap?
Greets!
00:35 on December 7th, 2007
wow thanks a lot
16:46 on December 8th, 2007
@Grant: I analize your problem, I think you should have to limit the blacklisted words, the file you use to blacklist is very huge, I recommend you to short it and in the next release I’ll put a max limit to avoid this problem.
@WarrenFaith: Links outside the comments should just be nofollow free, the nofollow attribute in Wordpress are applied only in comments links.
01:59 on December 14th, 2007
this plugin is very helpful
13:12 on December 15th, 2007
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
14:11 on December 15th, 2007
thanks a lot this plugin was very help full for me
04:00 on December 18th, 2007
Hi Michelle
Im Mich :)
Thanks for your plugins they are great. Im going to post you through our network and use them on every blog!
Ill be back with translations to.
Peace
Mich in the web
http://mich.in
06:16 on December 18th, 2007
I think its easy to set up in blogger.. juz search the source and remove rel=nofollow from it..(usually there will be two instances in that.. remove both.!
phew..!
15:09 on December 18th, 2007
Inserito!
Bel plugin!
13:17 on December 28th, 2007
Michelle,
I’m afraid that i’m getting the same error as Rick, regading:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_sidebar_widget()
But i’m definitely using 2.3.1.
17:57 on December 29th, 2007
Tolles Plugin! Wer einen schönen Kommentar geschrieben hat soll auch gerne einen kleinen Link haben. Zumindest so ist meine Ansicht!
03:50 on December 30th, 2007
Hallo, It’s somehow disappointing the last version again makes
“This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!” if I set a link to the plug in, which is by default enabled.
If I disable the link to plug in its XHTML valid, that’s the good news. 8)
06:45 on January 1st, 2008
Thanks for writing this! I can’t seem to get it to work with the CommentLuv plugin, though, which would be my only request. :)
14:21 on January 2nd, 2008
@helmeloh: I fixed it thank you
@Kevinjohn: mmmm I cannot reproduce your problem, could you please send me more info about the issue? Thank you
01:14 on January 4th, 2008
Gracias, por el plugins! :-)
23:24 on January 5th, 2008
It’s really useful, thanks you
23:39 on January 5th, 2008
Why this plugins doesn’t work with Paged Threaded Comments
How to make it work?
Please help
Thanks
23:41 on January 5th, 2008
Or, this plugins cannot repair some comment before this plugins installed?
So, this plugins will be affected for new comment only?
10:29 on January 6th, 2008
@Jauhari: I never try it with that plugin installed, so I have to investigate. It could be probably incompatible at this moment.
NoFollow Free removes nofollow attribute for every comments since the blog’s birth.
16:23 on January 9th, 2008
Thanks for this great plugin…
17:02 on January 13th, 2008
I have activated the plugin but being a non techie I really do not know if it is doing what it should be doing. I know this sounds silly but how do I determine if the nofollow attribute has been turned off in my comments?
Thanks.
04:40 on January 14th, 2008
Hey.
I just set this plugin up on two of my blogs and it worked just fine. I overlookd the template tag at first, but after that everything went just fine!
Keep up the good work!
12:09 on January 15th, 2008
Just added this plugin to my blog, and it works fine :)
Joined the list of do-follow blogs :D
15:11 on January 20th, 2008
nice plugin…
14:08 on January 21st, 2008
thats an awsome article. thanks.
13:22 on January 22nd, 2008
Hi … I would like to suggest you a different approach for the noff(); function call right below the opened body tag. In order to make that call more “upgrade friendly” for the WordPress theme. Imho if (function_exists(noff)) noff(); wrapped between php tags sits well over there. Since WordPress recommends us to disable all the plugins before the upgrade itself, if somehow the plugin doesn’t activate (conflict, the blog’s admin simpli forgets to do this, etc) then instead of a working blog, the result is a error about the script moaning that the function noff(); doesn’t exist blah-blah.
Anyway, great job, great plugin.
08:58 on January 23rd, 2008
@Saltwater: thank you for pointing out that. I modified the plugin and this page with your changes.
Thank you
09:03 on January 24th, 2008
sqsqs
20:58 on January 27th, 2008
Impressive.. Nice plugin
14:44 on January 28th, 2008
I like this We follow Idea , keep going we are with you :)
Regards,
http://www.jeddahbikers.com
12:51 on February 3rd, 2008
Hi Michele,
I am french so sorry for my bad english (if it is).
I’ve just to install your plugin and I just would like to say thank you !
I’ve correct your french traduction about this plugin… if you want the traduction file : http://www.thierrypoinot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/lang-frphp.txt
Thanks for your plugin !
12:31 on February 8th, 2008
Great plugin, thanks for making it!
13:41 on February 9th, 2008
the plungin were very useful then, pretty sure that everyone would like it.. Thanks!
09:13 on February 11th, 2008
This is an information that is obviously of great value. I totally
agree with your statements.Thanks for sharing it!
02:12 on February 12th, 2008
Found a funny bug with the plugin, but I don’t know if others experienced it. When the plugin is active, I can’t edit the text in my default sidebar widgets. When I deactivate the plugin, I can edit properly again. It is possible to add and remove widgets and save the configuration while your plugin is active, just can’t edit text.
08:38 on February 12th, 2008
nofollow should be removed by all webmasters… it doesn’t really help in fighting spams. it even penalizes legit commentators by not passing the link juice which is supposed to be the reward a blogger can give to his/her readers
13:21 on February 12th, 2008
@Turnip: I fixed the bug in 1.4.9 version I just released. Thank you for reporting it
23:40 on February 12th, 2008
Very good plugin !
03:27 on February 13th, 2008
Thanks! I’m relieved it wasn’t just my imagination.
09:50 on February 15th, 2008
Hi, I really like this plugin. Thanks. i even created buttons fot it. Take a look at http://www.wlogz.com/design/nofollow-free-buttons-for-you.html.
17:53 on February 15th, 2008
I’m new to all this blogging this site is really helpful
Cheers
Jamie
22:25 on February 16th, 2008
thanks
20:44 on February 17th, 2008
Great info, thanx!
17:23 on February 19th, 2008
What a great plugin. Love it!
I would love to have the ability to switch off the comments counter for the admin of the blog.
Also, the bold lines in the configuration area of your plugin are kind of screaming to my eyes. Can you set the font weight to normal? Or perhaps using headlines instead, or widget like groupings (like in the XML Sitemap Generator plugin).
Again, thanks for developing this neat plugin. Really love it.
10:38 on February 20th, 2008
Hi Michele. I just installed your plugin.
I’m not so wordpress techie so I’m not able to know if it’s working or not, I just trust it’s working.
But I have a problem with the sidebar widget: if I enable it my blog explode and returns the following error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function get_results() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/fmf.it/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/nofollow-free/nofollowfree.php on line 69
Any idea on what went wrong?
The blog address is http://www.fmf.it/blog/, but you can’t see the error right now because I disabled the widget, of course.
10:44 on February 20th, 2008
@effemmeffe: you are right, my mistake, I will upload the new 1.5 version today to fix it and add the new feature that Pete requested.
Thank you for your report
11:24 on February 20th, 2008
Ok, thanks.
I’ll check for the new version.
01:49 on February 21st, 2008
E’ un plugin grandioso!
Complimenti Michele, ottimo lavoro.
Aggiungo il tuo blog nel mio feed reader così non mi perdo i tuoi nuovi articoli!!
Ciao
Francesco
Mi farebbe piacere vederti nel mio sito!
P.s. Avrei un buon consiglio per il tuo AdSense. Ciauz
14:52 on February 21st, 2008
Hi, I get the new version and it solves the problem of the widget.
Now some more issues.
I choose to display the number of comments near the commenter names and it works fine in the single post page of my blog, but in the dashboard page I have the section Comments under Latest Activity and there are listed all the new comments and all the commenters are credited of the same number of comment.
Second issue, but this one could be my fault: I enabled the widget and checked Exclude registered users, but in my sidebar I can still see my name as best commenter. Do I misunderstood the meaning of that setting or there actually are something wrong?
Thanks in advance.
09:34 on February 22nd, 2008
@effemmeffe: I solved the comment count issue in the admin, it was my mistake because that function cannot work in the dashboard so I removed it entirely.
The second issue is very strange, to remove registered user from counting I just insert a where clause like this “user_id=0″, because every comments made by not registered user have user_id=0 (otherwise it has user_id=registered_user_id). Is possibile your comments are made when you are not logged in, like an unregistered user? Please if you can, check the wp_comments table for the user_id field of one of your comment.
Thank you
10:23 on March 3rd, 2008
Fantastically explained. Thanks I have a couple of blogs and now I will use them as a tool to help get more visitors
21:19 on March 3rd, 2008
Very good plugin!
Thanks.
01:47 on March 7th, 2008
Hey there. Great plugin, I wrote about it on my blog.
Just thought I’d let you know that I created some buttons that you can use for free to promote this great plugin..
They are available here:
http://bradblogging.com/unique-widgets/unique-wordpress-plugin-6-no-follow-free/
Enjoy!
Brad
10:35 on March 7th, 2008
Well…we should against spams not blogs. If we allow the nofollow, then people are not likely to comment.
And we want the comments to have our content growing too.
Great plug in…
16:24 on March 8th, 2008
hello
14:43 on March 9th, 2008
Nice plugin, this plugin is very helpful.
Thanks
14:47 on March 10th, 2008
Unfortunately, I can not get this plugin to work and I would really like to use it.
I must be doing something wrong, please help if you can.
I’m using WP 2.3.3 and have the following options:
Do you want to remove nofollow from (all checked):
Author Link
Comment text Link
Registered Author Link
Registered Comment text Link
Set how many comments the author = 0
Set how many comments the REGISTERED = 0
no one blacklisted
and the top band not displayed.
Any help?
15:08 on March 10th, 2008
Update:
I got this to work. There was another plugin I was using that was interfering with this plugin.
Michelle, thanks for the quick response :)
Great plug in!
15:14 on March 10th, 2008
@Jennifer: I’m happy it works, but please could you tell us what was the plugin in conflict? So you could help other people with same problem.
Thank you
18:48 on March 10th, 2008
What would be great would be some sort of plugin that looked ahead to see if the other site was also in the “I follow” camp. That way sites opting into the bargain could reward each other? (Apols if this sounds dumb, I’m still a newbie!)
20:27 on March 12th, 2008
Great Plugin. Thanks for sharing.
10:08 on March 13th, 2008
Hallo Michele.
I’m here again because you solved the problem in the dashboard, but I have the same problem in my blog frontpage after placing the Recent Comments widget.
That widget shows the latest comments in the blog with author and post title.
With your plugin now all the commenters showed by that widget has the same number of comment.
Can you please check it?
I still can’t find the time to watch into the database to check the user_id for the second issue I pointed out in my last comment. I’ll keep for the future…
Regards.
14:34 on March 13th, 2008
great plugin, this is exactly what I was looking for to go with my new blog http://www.adsensefortune.net
Thanks!
19:03 on March 13th, 2008
[...]A very nice plugin… this is the right plugin to whom in link campaign to encourage them to post a comment…[...]
12:25 on March 14th, 2008
this is a cool plugin. i’m now using it in my blog
03:19 on March 18th, 2008
Isn’t that
if (function_exists(’noff’)) noff();
?
20:25 on March 18th, 2008
I using you plugin at http://www.wlogz.com Anime Blog with fresc content each day with english sub Epizodes.
12:23 on March 19th, 2008
Just to report that the last version 1.5.3 solves the problem I wrote in comment 130.
Thanks.
21:25 on March 19th, 2008
thanx docs
02:37 on March 22nd, 2008
Unfortunately, this plugin seems to suffer from an sql injection vulnerability, which I only discovered after it happened on my site.
I could not find a contact form or email address to send the details to, though :(
10:11 on March 24th, 2008
Thanks for the great plugin. It is only fair that a link be provided back to the person who links to you. This makes it followable, which is great.
18:21 on March 24th, 2008
@Takuan: I fixed the security bug thank you very much for reporting it.
@everybody: please upgrade as soon as possible