Turn off or remove link to post in frontend

Thank you @awilson3rd, I am investigating the issue of why the “include post titles” option selection is not being honored. I will let you know what is determined as soon as possible.

@awilson3rd, the issue has been identified and a fix is being released shortly. Also, keep in mind, the option to enable/disable the post title when displaying reviews (the title of the post/page from where the review was captured from) will only hide it from display, the html will still be rendered in the DOM (as you described when you forced the usage of “display:none” manually. This is on purpose as the HTML being used is formatted in a way that actually helps SEO to establish internal linkbacks. Maybe in the future when we migrate Rich Reviews into our main plugin, Starfish Reviews, we will provide more options for managing this.

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• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Matt.

Hello Matt

Thanks very much for the reply and for fixing the issue.

With regards to links. I understand that internal linking is not a bad thing (throughout a site) but when using the review on a single post all these reviews links link back to the same post that the review is on. For example, if there are 30 reviews on a post all 30 of those are linking to the same post that the review is on – they don’t go anywhere else in the site. That to me looks spammy and I am concerned Google will see it the same way.

Having the option to turn these links off would be the best solution. Is there any way I can do this in the code?

Thanks again – Andrew

Andrew,

You have a good point there – we will take that into consideration when we migrate this feature to Starfish Reviews. Possibly providing two options for the title 1) Hide it, or 2) Remove it. For now, you could adjust the code directly but that will have its own ramifications as any changes will be replaced when future updates are released. We are trying not to put too much effort into new features so we can focus on the migration work.

Thank you!

Hello Matt

Thanks for the reply.

Any idea where in the code this is? As long as I know that this might have ramifications in the future I would like to try and remove it.

Thanks – Andrew

Andrew,

You can find the code in question in the following location

/shortcodes/rr-show.php; line 187; rr_hide_show_post_title()

Thanks Matt

I removed the following and it has worked. The link(s) no longer show when viewing the page source and thankfully it doesn’t seem to have broken anything:-)

<div class="rr_review_post_id" <?php echo esc_attr($hide);?>>
           <a href="<?php echo get_permalink($data['rPostId']); ?>">
               <?php echo esc_html($data['rCategory']); ?>
           </a>
       </div>

Thanks again, Andrew