rel="nofollow" removed/replaced with data-rel..why?

  • For the life of me i cant figure out why this plugin purposely strips out the nofollow attribute. I am looking at your code in class-frontend.php and i see that you strangely replace all rel tags with data-rel instead of simply leaving the rel tag alone and just adding your own data-rel tag as an extra attribute.

    I’ve seen some cases where it will keep the nofollow but move it inside data-rel which now makes the nofollow useless. Other cases it just removes nofollow entirely (not seen in data-rel at all).

    Is this a bug or intentional? Seems to go backwards.

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  • Plugin Author dFactory

    (@dfactory)

    I’m trying to imagine what might be our intention in stripping rel tags. Can you be more precise in this?

    There was rel attribute (instead of data-rel) used as lightbox trigger in the past (before 1.5). This however was not passing w3c validation, so we switched to data-rel but tried to kept manual usage of rel compatibility. That’s the background of the issue.

    Thread Starter donna9

    (@donna9)

    Thanks for the quick reply. On my test page i have:

    <strong><a href="https://mydomain.com/image.jpg" rel="nofollow" title=""></a></strong>

    When i enable your plugin to have this as a popup using “prettyPhoto” it works fine but when i look at the underlying source i see that it is now:

    <strong><a href="https://mydomain.com/image.jpg" data-rel="lightbox-gallery-Sgxe" title=""></a></strong>

    Notice the nofollow has been stripped. I’ve seen some cases where u place the nofollow inside the data-rel attribute which doesnt help because nofollow doesnt work inside that.

    WHen i uncheck “Single images as gallery” then it shows:

    <strong><a href="https://mydomain.com/image.jpg" data-rel="nofollow lightbox-gallery-Sgxe" title=""></a></strong>

    As u can see nofollow is back HOWEVER because it is inside data-rel it now becomes useless and serves no purpose since nofollow must be inside rel not data-rel.

    I tried W3 HTML5 validator and it seems to validate fine with rel and data-rel used together so just not sure why u guys didnt just keep both when they validate fine (just tried it now using their “Direct Input” test).

    Thread Starter donna9

    (@donna9)

    Havent heard back from you in a while so i guess i will fix your code to resolve this problem. Again, W3C Validator seems to say it is fine (ie, to have rel and data-rel for “a” anchor links) so i am confused why this wasnt done in the first place. Anyway, i will fix your code now and move on. Regards.

    I am having a similar issue except I don’t know how to fix php. It’s not that my nofollow is being stripped but that I can’t find a way to add nofollow to image links. I am intentionally using the simple “Single Image” for 6 of my images with links on one specific part of my site so that they are rendered/displayed the way I want them plus that way I can have them all linked. The only other way I can see to work around this is to put those 6 images into a text block and edit the link itself. This does work and keeps the rel=”nofollow” but I was hoping there was an easier way. With the text block I then have to do some css fixes which isn’t always easy to design for whichever browser or screen size.

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