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

[ishitaka]

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.' ),

[mukesh27]

If above fix needs to add in core software then try attached patch. if it's not needed then close this ticket.

[mukesh27]

Patch

[ishitaka]

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

[swissspidy]

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.

[ishitaka]

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.

[swissspidy]

@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.

[ishitaka]

@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/

[swissspidy]

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.

[ishitaka]

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

[SergeyBiryukov]

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.