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rel="nofollow" Group Description

techytoo
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@techytoo

9 years, 11 months ago

I’ve searched the forums and haven’t been able to find an answer on how to add rel=”nofollow” to links people put in Group Description. SITE-WIDE ACTIVITY does it automatically which is what I need to do on Group Description. The spammers seem to know that it will give them a dofollow link and I’m not able to change it without deleting the group which I’ve been doing.

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techytoo
Participant

@techytoo

9 years, 11 months ago

Spammers seem to leave once they see their not getting dofollow backlinks.

techytoo
Participant

@techytoo

9 years, 11 months ago

Tried changing some things in “bp-groups-filters.php” but couldn’t get it to add ‘ rel=”nofollow” ‘. I’m sure there is an easy way to do this but I just don’t know what it is. Right now I have “let all users create groups” disabled until I can find a fix.

Security
Participant

@shivam-kumar

9 years, 11 months ago

Hi @techytoo
There is a plugin for no following all the external links on your site
https://wordpress.org/plugins/nofollow-for-external-link/screenshots/
May be this can help Thanks

techytoo
Participant

@techytoo

9 years, 11 months ago

Thanks for your reply. It works if they don’t use tages, which they do.

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

9 years, 11 months ago

Ah, good spot. Yes, I think BuddyPress should be nofollowing links in the group description field.

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

9 years, 11 months ago

I’ve made a ticket and we’ll try to get this fixed in BuddyPress 2.2 (due to be released mid/late January 2015). If the fix is easy for you to apply, once we do that, I’ll try to remember to come back and leave a note here.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6053#ticket

techytoo
Participant

@techytoo

9 years, 11 months ago

Ok. Thanks a lot Paul!

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