Remove No Follow From Comment Author Link & Comment Content Text Area Links

The code snippets in this tutorial remove the default rel="nofollow" from links added in the comment content area as well as the comment author link.

You can use the code to remove the rel="nofollow" completely or change it to rel="external"

Remove No Follow From Comment Author Links

Remove No Follow From Comment Content Text Area Links

Remove rel="nofollow" from comment content text :

Uses str_ireplace

Enable Removal of No Follow From Comment Content Links

This code doesn’t remove the rel="nofollow" attribute from HTML links in comments however its does enable you to remove them manually so you can choose which links are no follow and which are do follow.

Note : The above code only works when adding HTML links with a tags like this

<a href="example.com">Link</a>

but doesn’t remove nofollow when adding text links like this

http://example.com

Remove No Follow From Raw Text Links

The following code removes the rel="nofollow" attribute from raw text links which are added to comments.

So links added to comments like this :

http://example.com

Which WordPress would turn into this :

<a href="http://example.com" rel="nofollow">http://example.com</a>

Now become this :

<p>http://example.com</p>