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Free Plugin by apasionados v3.6.0

DoFollow Case by Case

DoFollow Case by Case allows you to selectively apply dofollow to comments and make links in pages or posts nofollow.

DoFollow Case by Case

The facts

Rating
4★ from 8
Active installs
1k+
Price
Free
Last updated
1 Feb 2026
Added
Jul 2013
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
WP 6.9.7
Downloads
26,567

Our analysis

AI-assisted

DoFollow Case by Case is a WordPress plugin that allows you to manage the 'nofollow' attribute on links in comments. You can remove the 'nofollow' attribute from individual comments or set up a whitelist of email addresses and URLs that will always have dofollow links. This provides flexibility in how you handle comment links on your blog.

The plugin is suitable for those who want to control link attributes on their WordPress site, particularly in the context of comments. It is particularly useful for site owners who wish to promote certain contributors or URLs while maintaining a level of control over spammy links.

Best for: This plugin suits WordPress site owners who want to manage comment link attributes effectively.

What it does well

  • Removes 'nofollow' from comment links case by case
  • Allows whitelisting of email addresses for dofollow links
  • Supports whitelisting of specific URLs for dofollow links
  • Available in English and Spanish
  • Free to use from the WordPress.org directory

Where it falls short

  • Requires careful management to avoid spam
  • May conflict with other similar plugins

Verdict

DoFollow Case by Case offers a specific solution for controlling link attributes in comments, making it a useful tool for those focused on comment management.

From the developer

apasionados's own description of DoFollow Case by Case, lightly tidied.

This WordPress plugin gives you the possibility to remove the “nofollow” attribute from your wordpress blog’s comments: from the author’s links and/or from the comments text links. This can be done either case by case (editing each comment) or through a white-list of commenters emails, whose comments will allways be dofollow.

And don’t forget:

Don’t use this plugin if you are using another plugin with similar funcionality. Please read the information about it in the FAQ section.

What can I do with this plugin?

This plugin allows you to set links in comments to be dofollow instead of nofollow. When editing a comment, now you have the option to remove the rel=”nofollow” attributes from the links contained in them.
To make it easier, you can also setup commenters emails whose links in comments should always be dofollow and you can even set their Author URL when commenting to be dofollow.
On the other side you can also define URLs that when contained in a comment are always dofollow, so that you can setup links to your own sites to be always dofollow.

In order to add commenter’s emails or URLs to the white list, please go to DoFollow > DoFollow.

DoFollow > White List Email: The Email White List contains a list of emails of commenters, whose links in comments are allways dofollow. And you can also choose to make the Author URL dofollow. By default the Author URL is not followed.
Here you can add for example the email addresses of your staff and collaborators.

DoFollow > White List URL: The URL White List contains a list of URLs that when linked to in a comment, are always dofollow, nevertheless who links to them.
Here you can setup for example links from your sites or from other sites.

What ideas is this plugin based on?

We were looking for a plugin like Nofollow Case by Case but that worked the other way round. Instead of removing the re=”nofollow” from all comments links and have the possibilty to add the rel=”nofollow” case by case, we wanted to leave the rel=”nofollow” and all comments and have the possibility to remove them only from some comments.

And the last plugin we liked is Smart DoFollow which lets you automatically give DoFollow links to authors of comments that are longer than a given number of chars. This is intersting, but very dangerous as today all comment spam is quite long and has many characters.

DoFollow Case by Case Plugin in your Language!

This first release is avaliable in English and Spanish. In the i18n we have included the necessarry files to translate this plugin.

If you would like the plugin in your language and you’re good at translating, please drop us a line at Contact us.

Further Reading

You can access the description of the plugin in Spanish at: DoFollow Case by Case en castellano.

Read the full description on the official page →

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