nofollow for comment links

[jaal]

Hi all,

I've searched my way through the forum and google, but didn't found a hint.

How can I activate "nofollow" for links in comments? Do I have to hardcode them or is there any option or plugin available?

Thanks
Jan

[Don Chambers]

I am unaware of any plugin that does this, but it is quite simple to do. Your template needs a comments.tpl file. If it does not have one, copy the file from /templates/default/ to your template folder. Edit the file and look for something like this:

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(<a class="comment_source_url" href="{$comment.url}" title="{$comment.url|@escape}">{$CONST.HOMEPAGE}</a>)

and modify it to be this:

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(<a class="comment_source_url" href="{$comment.url}" title="{$comment.url|@escape}" rel="nofollow">{$CONST.HOMEPAGE}</a>)

[jaal]

Thanks for your help.

I don't really like the idea of editing more than necessary templates. If there is any update on them the custom ones won't get the update.

But in this case nofollow is more important to me

Thanks
Jan

[Don Chambers]

If the template already has a custom comments.tpl, and an increasing number of templates do, it is no big deal. Also - the probability that the default comments.tpl will be modified is probably low.