Exclude by Post Author ID (similar to exclude by domain) Feature Request

  • paul buxbaum

    (@paul-buxbaum)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    Using your plugin and all is working fine w/ WP 4.5.2 and thank you.
    I would like to exclude all processing by author ID. Looks like there is no enabled hooks for this to be done.

    With all the internet chatter regarding nofollow and Google’s position on unnatural links, I thought exclusion by author would be a good enhancement.

    I added the following to the main plugin code (with added associated admin UI) for my purposes (line 183 of sem-external-links.php:

    // short circuit if exclude author by id
    if ( isset( $this->opts[‘exclude_authors’] ) && $this->opts[‘exclude_authors’] )
    {
    $exclude_authors = array();
    $exclude_authors = explode (“,”, $this->opts[‘exclude_authors’]);
    $current_post = get_post();
    $current_post_author_id = $current_post->post_author;
    if ( in_array($current_post_author_id, $exclude_authors ))
    return($text);
    }

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-external-links/

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  • Plugin Author Mike Koepke

    (@mike_koepke)

    7 years, 1 month ago

    So you’d make some links nofollow for some author’s pages or posts, but for some you’d want to follow them?

    I’m not following the use case for why you’d want to do this other than maybe you had guest author and you wanted his link to his site to be followed. If so, then use the rel=”follow” attribute would accomplish this.

    So more info on the why would be great.

    Thanks.

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