Are you looking for a way to add the nofollow attribute to category specific links? This snippet will add the rel="nofollow" attribute to links to the specified category within the post content.
Instructions:
- Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin
- Change the category id in line 3 to the category to which you want to add the nofollow attribute.
function nofollow_cat_posts($text) {
global $post;
if( in_category(1) ) { // SET CATEGORY ID HERE
$text = stripslashes(wp_rel_nofollow($text));
}
return $text;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'nofollow_cat_posts');
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How to add more categories?
You could change line 3 to include an OR clause:
if( in_category(1) || in_category(2)) { // Etc.
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