[wp-hackers] more nofollow

[Brian Dupuis]

Actually, that's where you may be wrong. In fact, this _is_ appropriate 
for the majority of WordPress users. We, the folks who might not wish to 
have nofollow on by default as "active" WordPress developers, are likely 
not the majority. That said, if there was indeed a way to have nofollow 
be on by default -- for that relatively naive majority -- and a 
straightforward, simple way for those of us who do not intend to use 
nofollow to turn it off -- and I don't consider modifying core code or 
developing a plugin to remove core code or subvert core code to be 
straightforward -- then I think everyone would be happy.

Josh Jarmin wrote:

>I also agree that having the plugin already installed and turned on is
>the better option.  Right now I don't think any Wordpress default
>plugins are turned on by default, maybe they can't be, I dont know. 
>Not having to download a new plugin, but have it already there, would
>be greatly more helpful to the community as a whole.  Matt, understand
>that we are not against you or even completely against nofollow, it
>does have a lot of good purposes.  But the way you are wanting to do
>it, just doesn't seem to make much sense to the majority of Wordpress
>users.
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>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:22:48 -0500 (EST), Scott Merrill
><skippy at skippy.net> wrote:
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>>Christoph Rummel said:
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>>>Although I'm very much on the no-nofollow side I can
>>>see good things about nofollow.
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>>I agree.  My desire for a nofollow plugin, as opposed to a
>>no-nofollow plugin, is not meant as a negative statement toward
>>rel="nofollow" in and of itself.
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>>>I see no problem with removing rel="nofollow", but I
>>>think it is a good thing it is switched on by default
>>>and not to be switched off by Joe User - you really
>>>should know what you are doing.
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>>I agree that an enabled-by-default nofollow solution is a good thing
>>for most people.  But I also think that this is a great opportunity
>>for WordPress to provide a solution that makes life easy for
>>everyone.  Either provide an administrative option to enable or
>>disable nofollow site-wide, or provide a plugin that enables
>>nofollow site-wide and configure that plugin to be enabled by
>>default.
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>>People who want to can de-activate the plugin, which is far more
>>intuitive than installing a plugin to turn off a hard-coded
>>WordPress default.
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