Hi Calvin,

I've tried to replicate this issue locally, seems like the link block was set the follow/nofollow correctly : http://take.ms/wf91X
I've tried to access your site, seems like the access was denied: http://take.ms/SgnpR
and it is possible to provide us with your FTP access as well for further check on this?

You can add the information needed by edit your first post in the Details section or you can just include your site's access once at http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site rather than needing to keep adding them in your replies

Hi I think I didn;t explain well enough.

I want to be able to allow control of every link, just like there is a control to set the link to open in a new window I want to allow the links in text or html blocks to be follow or nofollow.

One way around was to use the link block as the link was not set to nofollow, it now is at least partially as the image is still follow. But sometimes I want an embeeded link to be follow.

I cant setup ftp on this site sorry, and it seems my site is working the same as your tests.

I want to be able to allow control of every link, just like there is a control to set the link to open in a new window I want to allow the links in text or html blocks to be follow or nofollow.

Oh I see, unfortunately there is no setting for setting for the follow/nofollow to the links in the text. It could best if you create a new ticket under feature request so that our developer can keep track on the feature that can be implement in the future release

Hi Calvin,

Sorry that I've miss the point for the html block, it is possible to done that using the html block, where you can all the rel="follow" / rel="no follow" as example: https://monosnap.com/file/D9mVyYovj9M2XuN65hIUkXtKqfnRL3

example code:
[gist type="php"]
<p><a rel="follow" href="https://www.google.com/html/">I've tested this and its working perfectly fine. </a></p>
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I am guessing the setting to overide the nofollow is javascript after the page has loaded? As I am finding that html created this way is altered. Hence the support request. This WAS working before not now. I didnt check since last update yesterday. Will check now.

Hi Calvin,

Correct me if I'm wrong, do you mean that you've done using the html block similar as I given above yes? and after the blog post load in frontend it was override the follow/nofollow?
If yes, can you give us the link to that blog post and is it possible for you to provide us with the back end and FTP access to your site to check on this issue? as the current backend access did not working http://take.ms/7gyrO

You can add the information needed by edit your first post in the Details section or you can just include your site's access once at http://stackideas.com/dashboard/site rather than needing to keep adding them in your replies

Yes and it is still an issue, just tested it. I have enabled the account so you can log in and check this post. Find the block I added with stackideas link, it is getting a nofollow added.

https://style-review.com/you-blog/entry/herbalife-blogger-in-florida-planning-a-meal-out-when-on-a-diet

Hi Calvin,

Yes, seems like the link was append the nofollow in the link. I suspect there is some plugin trigger.
Is it possible for you to provide us with the FTP access to your site to check on this issue?

I am glad you can see the issue. unfortunately it is very hard to setup ftp on this server.
Are you saying that you cant replicate it,

If the setting for nofollow links is changed in the easblog settings what happens on your development site? I am asking you to set the nofollow global setting on your dev site. I am quite sure this is causing the issue and not a 3rd party plugin. I restrict plugins as much as possible.

I can confirm that this is because of the setting nofollow in the seo tab which is not great as we need control over links- I would be happy to do html blocks, but it is also rendering nofollow on those as well.. Perhaps you can ignore html blocks when this is set? That would be most logical.

Hi Calvin,

I see, so you still want the setting of Insert No-follow Attributes In Hyperlinks in SEO tab be enabled so that it be applied in other blocks? Basically this setting will scan the overall content and replace the link with rel="no follow"
Perhaps, if you want the links in html block to be rel="follow" you need to add it there at the moment. And I've encounter some bug regarding this if you already input rel= tag in the link it will always add nofollow.
Can you download the file attached and replace in the folder:
.../administrator/components/com_easyblog/includes/string/string.php

So basically, the link that you prefer it to be rel="follow" you need to add it as below:
[gist type="php"]
<p><a rel="follow" href="https://stackideas.com/forums/nofollow-option-is-global-even-for-link-blocks">link</a> stackideas</p>
[/gist]
and if you want the link in html block using the rel="nofollow" you can just leave the link as it is without input the rel as below:
[gist type="php"]
<p><a href="https://stackideas.com/forums/nofollow-option-is-global-even-for-link-blocks">link</a> stackideas</p>
[/gist]
where it will fallback using the setting Insert No-follow Attributes In Hyperlinks, which is automatically append the rel="nofollow" tag

You're suggested to backup the file that you want to replace beforehand for precaution

Ok so this works, can it go into the main code so I don't loose it on upgrade?

This should not be causing all the issues and is a MAJOR factor for SEO and you will start to find that other users need this as their blogs and understanding grows. I don't get why you are able to add the target attribute but not the nofollow ??

Hi Calvin,

Yes, as I've already logged this issue into our issue tracker and our developer will take an action for this

Hi This is stopping working each time I upgrade and is causing me a lot of loss of faith when people need dofollow links.

You go to so much trouble to get feedback and ask our opinions. We need this feature. Please get this code in the main branch. Thank you.

Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

My colleague is not around during weekend here, I believe this issue should be fix in the current latest version because i saw my colleague did logged this into issue tracker.

May i know which existing post on your site still having this issue so I can better have a check?

Hi Can I check if this has been taken into the new version 5.2.10
It's not that great to have to do this every time there is a new version. TY

Hi Calvin,

Yes the fix has been applied in the version 5.2.8 onward