Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#45372 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)
Add nofollow to the link to the comment form login page.
Reported by: | ishitaka | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Comments | Keywords: | has-patch close |
Focuses: | Cc: |
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)
Change History (11)
#1
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6 years ago
- Component changed from Login and Registration to Comments
- Keywords has-patch 2nd-opinion added
#3
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6 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
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6 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
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6 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.
#7
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6 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
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6 years ago
Because the login page is noindex, what about the idea that it is not necessary to dare follow?
#10
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6 years ago
- Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to 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.