Autarchy of the Private Cave » link https://bogdan.org.ua Tiny bits of bioinformatics, [web-]programming etc Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:09:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 WordPress and Google Analytics external nofollow problem in comment linkshttps://bogdan.org.ua/2009/02/13/wordpress-and-google-analytics-external-nofollow-problem-in-comment-links.html https://bogdan.org.ua/2009/02/13/wordpress-and-google-analytics-external-nofollow-problem-in-comment-links.html#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:41:55 +0000 http://bogdan.org.ua/?p=594 Since some WP release, the comment author’s link in comments is broken – it has ‘ external nofollow’ attached straight to the href attribute (which breaks the link).

I assume that the problem is caused by Google Analytics, namely the “track outgoing clicks” feature (as recalled, might be inaccurate feature name). “Track outgoing links” adds some JavaScript code to all outgoing links, and that script has tick characters like this one ‘ which, incidentally, are also used for delimiting the values of comment anchor tags.

To fix:

  1. locate file wp-includes/comment-template.php
  2. in that file, find the get_comment_author_link function (lines 140-150 in WP 2.7.1)
  3. replace the line
    1. $return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>$author</a>";

    with

    1. $return = '<a href="'.$url.'" rel="external nofollow" class="url">'.$author.'</a>';

This helped me and might help you.

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]]> https://bogdan.org.ua/2009/02/13/wordpress-and-google-analytics-external-nofollow-problem-in-comment-links.html/feed 2 Google’s services are language-dependenthttps://bogdan.org.ua/2007/11/28/google-services-are-language-dependent.html https://bogdan.org.ua/2007/11/28/google-services-are-language-dependent.html#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:17:32 +0000 http://bogdan.org.ua/2007/11/28/google-services-are-language-dependent.html If you want to fetch emails from some of your POP3-enabled mail accounts to Gmail, there’s a help article detailing the process. However, when using Ukrainian Gmail UI, clicking the link which should bring up the dialog box to add one out of maximum five Fetcher accounts, I got instead an offer to add the email address which I can use in the From field of my outgoing emails – and absolutely not a word about fetching emails from other POP3 accounts.

When I switched to English (UK) UI, everything went just as described in the help article, and I added one address to fetch emails from.

After fetching some mails, I switched back to Ukrainian UI, and – quite expectedly – the Fetcher part disappeared from the Settings/Accounts. Now I’m waiting to see if the Fetcher is nonetheless functional, or if it is also disabled… It’s functioning! So the only thing which was really changing in this case was the portion of the Settings/Accounts page not displayed while using Ukrainian UI.

The moral of the story is: when you think that some functionality is missing in the Google service you’re using – just switch to English UI!

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