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?
#9
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6 years ago
If you're disallow wp-admin in robots.txt, you'll also get a crawl error.
#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.
If above fix needs to add in core software then try attached patch. if it's not needed then close this ticket.