Comments on: How to Make Author Comment Links Do-Follow in Wordpress Without Using a Plugin

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:47:16 +0000

I asked that question over on the Thesis forums, and here’s the answer to replace the plugin with a custom function:

function do_follow_commenters($output) {
return str_replace(” rel=’external nofollow’”, “”, $output);
}
add_filter(‘get_comment_author_link’, ‘do_follow_commenters’);

By: blogjunkie

blogjunkie — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:09:10 +0000

Great tip! Unfortunately every time you do an upgrade you’ll lose the changes.. so it may still be best to use a plugin

By: Christy Correll

Christy Correll — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:37:47 +0000

Yes, but make a backup of the original … just in case.

By: Lanna

Lanna — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:41:49 +0000

Hello Christy,

Did you know that you have saved me a lot of time? Thanks a million!

I’ve been searching the whole evening in Goolge just looking for an answer like your post: “make wordpress dofollow without a plugin?” And your post is the only one that gave me the right answer. All others suggested a plugin which is not what I want. I don’t want to use too many plugins just like you.

For your final thought… I think I will just copy and paste comment-template.php over. That should not take long, right?