Do follow comments

Hi there,

This might help: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/275791

Let me know ??

From testing on one site – deleted cache on the server, Cloudflare cache and browser cache – didn’t work. Will Google more.

Since it’s probably not related to any particular theme, I’m marking it as resolved. Though any help or advice is welcome.

Will give feedback when/if I figure it out.

Strange, it looks like it should work:

remove_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'wp_rel_nofollow', 15 );

How are you adding it to your site?

Using a child theme.
In the functions.php of the child theme.

EDIT: nope, doesn’t help either. ??
Early to cheer.

This seems to do the trick, in case it helps anyone else:

// BEGIN remove nofollow from links in comments

add_filter( ‘comment_text’, ‘remove_rel_nofollow_attribute’ );
function remove_rel_nofollow_attribute( $comment_text ) {
$comment_text = str_ireplace(‘ rel=”nofollow”‘, ”, $comment_text );
return $comment_text;
}

// END remove nofollow from links in comments

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Bike Gremlin.

Yea, I found that one too but wasn’t sure it would work.

If you’d like to link me to a comment where I can see a nofollow attribute, I can tweak that function so it will work.

Let me know ??

Here’s an example:

https://bicikl.bikegremlin.com/1007/koji-tip-bicikla-odgovara-za-moje-potrebe/#comment-1543

Sometimes it’s rel=”nofollow”, sometimes rel=”nofollow ugc”, sometimes added the options for opening it in a separate tab (noopener…).

You may need to alter it for each case:

add_filter( 'comment_text', function( $text ) {
    $comment_text = str_replace( ' rel="nofollow"', '', $comment_text );
    $comment_text = str_replace( ' rel="nofollow ugc"', ' rel="ugc"', $comment_text );

    return $comment_text;
} );

Thanks – will give it a go and see how it goes. ??