Never Use Fantastico!
Today, I just discovered that I will not received my payout from LinkWorth because there’s a code inserted in my site that says “no follow”. My first reaction was “What the F!”. I’m really upset because I’m not using any of these codes, ever! I’ve checked my robots.txt if there’s something wrong with it, but there’s nothing unusual on the code. So I’ve dig deeper on what could have been wrong with the site. After few minutes, I’ve finally found the answer to my question. It’s probably the Wordpress installation using Fantastico. Not sure what’s wrong with Fantastico, but I have lots of instances that I’ve got “no follow” code on my site inserted when I’ve installed wordpress using Fantastico.
What is Fantastico?
Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website. Fantastico scripts are executed from the administration area of a website control panel such as cPanel. Fantastico’s web site claims that they are installed on ten thousand servers, with a million users worldwide. from wikipedia
My solution, never use Fantastico in installing your wordpress script to your site. Just install it the traditional way by downloading it on the official download page of Wordpress and you can be sure there will be no script will be inserted in your site without your knowing. Not sure what other scripts have this problem, but for me I’ll stay away from Fantastico from now on. Oh BTW, I came up with these conclusion after fixing about 50+ sites on hostgator and hostpapa server.
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Patrick said,
May 21, 2010 @ 12:12 am
I’m not sure the rel=”nofollow” has anything to do with wordpress being installed via fantastico, but in my own experience, I found that the nofollow attribute is present by default in all links created via comment -like this one for instance, my website url on your comment page, or this sample link i did not specify a nofollow attribute. Unless of course you change this setup by hard coding it, although there’s a much simpler approach, install a plugin that removes the nofollow attribute.
Vince said,
June 28, 2010 @ 1:25 pm
Hi Patrick, I’m talking about rel=”nofollow” throughout the site, not only via comment. I’m also aware about nofollow attribute is present by default in all links created via comment to prevent spamming. I think this is implemented 2-3 years ago if my memory is right. Haven’t use of a plugin that removes the nofollow attribute, I think it’s more complicated because it might remove also the nofollow tag on every comment on the post. That is why I suggest the traditional way to install Wordpress. Besides it will only take 10-15 minutes of your time. I’ve tried using fantastico because it saves me 8-14 minutes of my time before. I’m just sharing my experience on what happened to me after using Fantastico. If you could point to me on what part of installation in Fantastico that’s making this rel=nofollow problem, I could add it to the post and it will really help other readers of this blog. But for now, I recommend stay away from Fantastico.