Suggestions for improvements

  • Resolved Mevo

    (@mevo)


    3 years ago

    Hi, the plugin is great. I feel it could be better (probably quite easily)

    If I understood correctly, there are currently 2 different things:
    1) The Author URL
    2) The URL(s) mentioned in the comment

    You can setup commenters email addresses for 2) and optionally select 1) by ticking a box. That’s very good (Maybe one could argue you cannot setup 1) without 2), but OK).

    Now, I have commenters who put my website as their “Author URL” when they are commenting. And then, my SEO scanning tool is unhappy because I have internal nofollow links to my own site.

    It would be great to be able to whitelist websites for 1). It would already be very useful for your own URL (the same box and system you use for email whitelisting would be good).
    + It would be great to be able to tick another box in the comment itself to make 1) dofollow. The current box only acts on 2), if I’m not mistaken.

    If you could consider this for the future, it would be amazing. Cheers.

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  • Plugin Author apasionados

    (@apasionados)

    Hi @mevo,

    Thanks for your suggestions.

    Whitelist is the same for 1 and 2:
    1) The Author URL
    2) The URL(s) mentioned in the comment

    If you whitelist your domain name, it will be follow in the author URL and in the URLs mentioned in the comment. Maybe we should include a check to always whitelist the domain where WordPress is installed.

    We faced the same problem some years ago and we solved it by not allowing to insert in the Author URL field the domain the WordPress was installed and leave it blank instead. Maybe we should release this as a standalone plugin. Could be that we decide to develop it beginning of next year.

    Nevertheless we are currently thinking about a complete redesign of this plugin and will keep your comments in mind.

    When we created this plugin 8 years ago we thought that it was a good idea to put many features in a plugin. Today we prefer to reduce the features and split them in several plugins.

    We will rewrite the comment part and strip out the nofollow link atribute when inserting a link in a post / page / custom post type. This second functionality gives us problems with the shortcodes which require the Classic Editor for WordPress version 5 and higher or the “Classic” Block in Gutenberg; and this is not a good solution.

    Also with newest PHP versions there are some errors which will be solved when we rewrite it.

    Hope this helps.

    Best regards from Spain.

    Thread Starter Mevo

    (@mevo)

    “If you whitelist your domain name, it will be follow in the author URL”: I was about to write an answer saying it doesn’t, but then I tested a bit more, and it seems the URL white listing doesn’t in fact work at all on my side. A whitelisted URL mentioned in the comment itself (even in a comment written by a white listed email address) also stays no follow in any case. The author URL of whitelisted email addresses works. Whatever the “Author” URL, if the email is whitelisted, the link will be dofollow. But that’s it for me. If you need more info, please just ask. Is this on my side? (I wouldn’t see why. This install is pretty clean and “classic” with all the latest versions of everything. Really nothing exotic).

    “Maybe we should include a check to always whitelist the domain where WordPress is installed”: I don’t think this is necessary. People can simply whitelist their domain (or not, if they don’t want to. Maybe there are some use case where it’s unwanted. In this latter scenario, you would just create a situation impossible to get out of. I feel it is good to have to manually whitelist it).

    Cheers.

    Plugin Author apasionados

    (@apasionados)

    Hi @mevo,

    Thanks for your reply. We will have a deep check on the sites where we are using the plugin to see if we can reproduce this behaviour.

    Best regards from Spain.

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