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#45372 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)

Add nofollow to the link to the comment form login page.

Reported by:	ishitaka	Owned by:
Priority:	normal	Milestone:
Component:	Comments	Version:
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	has-patch close
Cc:		Focuses:

Description

Can we have rel="nofollow" added to this link please?

comment-template.php:

__( 'You must be <a href="%s">logged in</a> to post a comment.' ),

Attachments (1)

45372.patch (930 bytes ) - added by mukesh27 8 years ago.: Patch

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Change History (11)

#1 @mukesh27
8 years ago

Component Login and Registration → Comments
Keywords has-patch 2nd-opinion added

Version 0, edited 8 years ago by mukesh27 (next)

@mukesh27
8 years ago

Attachment 45372.patch added

Patch

#2 @ishitaka
8 years ago

@mukesh27 thanks for your patch.
Your patch worked as what I wanted.

#3 @swissspidy
8 years ago

Keywords reporter-feedback added

Hi @ishitaka and welcome to Trac!

Can you please elaborate on why you think this is necessary? Search engines are discouraged to index the login page because of <meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow' /> anyway.

#4 @ishitaka
8 years ago

Hi @swissspidy

This link is displayed on the post page, so it can not be <meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow' />.
And I think that it is better not to index the login page.

#5 @swissspidy
8 years ago

@ishitaka What I meant is that the wp-login.php page itself contains <meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow' />. It is already protected from being indexed. Your proposed change would have no effect.

#6 @ishitaka
8 years ago

@swissspidy Google Search Console will crawl errors.
https://ja.wordpress.org/support/topic/%e3%82%b5%e3%83%bc%e3%83%81%e3%82%b3%e3%83%b3%e3%82%bd%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%81%ae%e3%82%af%e3%83%ad%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%82%a8%e3%83%a9%e3%83%bc%e3%81%ab%e3%80%8cwp-login-phpredirect_to%e3%80%8d/

#7 @swissspidy
8 years ago

Keywords close added; 2nd-opinion reporter-feedback removed

Looking at that support thread, the issue is about the site https://answer-final.com/.

They have protected their login form using a special way: https://answer-final.com/wp-login.php. When you open that URL you'll get an error message and a 403 response code.

That's why Googlebot errors in that case. It's not something caused by WordPress or something that WordPress can mitigate.

Just google for "inurl:wp-login.php" and you won't find any WordPress login page indexed.

#8 @ishitaka
8 years ago

Because the login page is noindex, what about the idea that it is not necessary to dare follow?

#9 @ishitaka
8 years ago

Blocking access to wp-admin will result in a crawl error.

Last edited 8 years ago by ishitaka (previous) (diff)

#10 @SergeyBiryukov
8 years ago

Milestone Awaiting Review
Resolution → wontfix
Status new → closed

Closing per comment:7, as this appears to be an issue with a particular site, not with WordPress core.

The wp-login.php page already has the noindex tag, so the proposed change would have no effect.

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#45372 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)

Add nofollow to the link to the comment form login page.

Description

Attachments (1)

Change History (11)

#1 @mukesh27 8 years ago

@mukesh27 8 years ago

#2 @ishitaka 8 years ago

#3 @swissspidy 8 years ago

#4 @ishitaka 8 years ago

#5 @swissspidy 8 years ago

#6 @ishitaka 8 years ago

#7 @swissspidy 8 years ago

#8 @ishitaka 8 years ago

#9 @ishitaka 8 years ago

#10 @SergeyBiryukov 8 years ago