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Well, since an handful of hours WordPress 2.3 has landed among us, so people are watching by the necessary steps to update their installation and - probably - update themes and plugins.

Recently there’s been a little discussion on the effectiveness of the usage of the “nofollow” attribute in blogs or general pourpose sites againt the neverending spam fighting.

Inside the italian blogosphere there’s been a growth of posts discussing this subject with empiricist results pointing to it’s uselessness and also to be a little deterrent for search engine spiders when they’re visiting our own site.

So, to help WordPress (self hosted) based blogs around the world some plugins have been developed and released to the public, and the one I’m using is the italian coded one NoFollow Free by Michele Marcucci and some friends.

This plugin remove the “nofollow” attribute from your wordpress blog’s comments (precisely from the author’s links) and/or from the comments text links and it helps to insert - if you want - an image band at the top of your pages with the phrase: “NOFOLLOW FREE” to encourage your users to submit comments.

The last release includes new options to replace the nofollow only when the author posted X comments before and put back the nofollow when some blacklisted words are matched.

The replacement of the nofollow is also based on the users type (registered and visitor users) and, naturally, every option can be customized by the options page.

So, have a look at this one and let the authors know your feelings about it !! (and digg it also, if you’ve enjoyed it)

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