Nofollow for pages broken?

  • hatesspam

    (@hatesspam)


    4 years ago

    What happens:

    * I copy the slug from a page (not a post).
    * I paste this in the plugin’s Settings page under “Enter page ID’s or page slugs of the pages you want nofollowed.”
    * I add a widget Pages to the sidebar that includes the abovementioned page.
    * I refresh a page with a sidebar and check the source code of the widget.
    * The a-element has no rel-attribute set.

    What I expected to happen:

    All of the above with the exception of the last step:

    * The a-element has a rel-attribute set with the value “nofollow”.

    I checked the WordPress sourcecode and wonder if the function wp_rel_nofollow_callback() hasn’t been changed (wp-includes/formatting.php).

    It currently seems set to ignore links to the same site.

    I realise I may not quite understand what nofollow for pages is for.

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