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Remove Redundant Links

Description

Changes <a> elements pointing to the currently seen page by removing the href attribute and adding a descriptive title.

Compatible with most themes. Tested with TwentyTen

Example:
If you are on the page /about/

<a href='http://example.com/about/'>About</a> 

will be converted to

<a title='You are here.' class='rrl current_page_item'>About</a>

and

<link rel='author' href='/about/'>

will be removed.

All changes apply to GET requests only.

Send me your bug reports and suggestions via my contact page.

Installation

Upload the directory to your plugin directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

FAQ

How can I change the replaced element, the title or the class name?

The current settings are chosen for compatibility.
To use other settings, you probably have to alter your theme.

You may alter the settings with a filter on rrl_settings in your functions.php.

Example:

function change_rrl_settings( $settings )
{
    $settings['class']     = 'my_own_class';
    $settings['title']     = 'Here be dragons';
    $settings['replace_a'] = 'span';

    return $settings;
}

add_filter( 'rrl_settings', 'change_rrl_settings', 10, 1 );
How can I prevent the stripping of the server prefix for links to other pages on the same site?

Same as above, set strip_server_prefix_on_all_links to FALSE:

function rrl_prevent_server_prefix( $settings )
{
    $settings['strip_server_prefix_on_all_links']     = FALSE;
    return $settings;
}

add_filter( 'rrl_settings', 'rrl_prevent_server_prefix', 10, 1);

Reviews

October 25, 2023
Unfortunately, there are problems with galleries in Elementor (for example, navigation in carousels does not work).Alas, I did not find an alternative solution.
August 16, 2022
Plugin still works and works perfect for WCAG. Author, it's probably good to change the plugin description, so it says it works on latest WordPress version. 🙂 Thanks!
Read all 4 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“Remove Redundant Links” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

  • v1.0 Initial release
  • v1.1 Fixed update blocker
  • v1.2 Fixed regex to match links. acronym and abbr will not be matched anymore.
  • v1.3 Fixed broken URIs on the frontpage.
  • v1.4 Added an option strip_server_prefix_on_all_links. Defaults to TRUE. Set this to FALSE to keep absolute URIs. See the FAQ.
  • v1.5 Fixed issue with <link rel=canonical>. Thanks to eviluody for testing!
  • v1.6 Fixed missing space in <linkrel=canonical>.
  • v1.7 Don’t touch <a rel=bookmark>, the »permalink« in TwentyTen.