As favor to me, Dane from Blog Strokes had provided a detailed tutorial on how to remove nofollow in WordPress without a plugin. I believe that many other bloggers can benefit from his tutorial.
The reason I have asked Dane this question was that for last few days have been testing my website (hopefully when most of my readers were asleep), with Lucia’s CPU hogging detection plugin to find out if any of my plugins hog the CPU resources.
Everything seams to be pointing to my DoFollow (by Kimmo Suominen) pugin – particularly if on those few posts that have 20+ comments. Also it is possible that for your themes to cause CPU overload if it is “widgetized” so I have decided from this point on avoid using widgets on this blog- at least until I find a good dedicated hosting.
The changes that Dane has provided on his blog are dead simple one’s the only drawback that you will need to repeat them every time there is another WordPress update.
This is a nice way to encourage comments on blogs, but it also encourages meaningless comments like 'good stuff' and 'great work here'.
This is great, it really makes you want to comment… but at the same time – you will receive a lot of spam.
I always believe modification without a plugin, thanks for this tip.
Nice article good to know how to remove the nofollow attribute in this way you can help you by receiving more comments and the commenter too 🙂
I agree that doing this will increase the amount of spam and short “great post” comments, but at the same time you do want to reward the people who put time into providing useful comments and starting discussions.
Adie,
I have moved away from the entire dofollow/nofollow issue. I don’t feel as strong about the issue today as felt at the time of writing this post.