http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: [Plugin: Google Analytics for WordPress] Outbound blogroll links are invalid XHTML 1.1 en Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:46:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/286126#post-1124372 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:15:38 +0000 ericesev 1124372@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Joost,</p> <p>Thanks for the great plugin! It has exactly the features I needed to get Google Analytics working with my blog. It required no editing of themes, it "just worked"!</p> <p>I just wanted to let you know that the plugin does not generate valid XHTML 1.1 blogroll anchor (link) tags. In particular, the outgoing links for the blogroll end up with a rel="" attribute in the 'a' element. This is incorrect syntax according to the w3.org validator, the rel element should be omitted (see <a href="http://bit.ly/b9rZJ" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/b9rZJ</a> for the output of the validator for my blog).</p> <p>A possible solution could be to check for an empty link_rel from the database and either set the link_rel to 'friend'. Or add an option to the Google Analytics for WordPress Configuration Admin page to allow the user to enter a relationship attribute to be used when the relationship is not set for a blogroll link. </p>