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Do you use dofollow plugins in your Wordpress blog to remove the nofollow attribute in your comments? Well, if you do, maybe you might not know that, those plugins can actually add a heavy load to your server, while processing pages with a higher number of comments, when experiencing a high traffic scenario.
Simply, this is what happens. When you install a dofollow plugin, when a page loads, the plugin will hunt down the nofollow tags and remove them from appearing in the page output to the browser. This is not the most effective method since what it does is using the system resources of your server to cure something that could have been simply prevented at the first place.
You know what they say right? Prevention is better than cure!
If there’s a page with 30 comments, this script will run a loop for 30 times to remove nofollow tags. And if you’re experiencing the Digg effect, this can really have a negative impact on your page loading times.
So, if the cure is so lame, why don’t we just prevent it at the first place? Well, all you have to do is make some minor edits to your Wordpress source files. I can tell you how to do it, but to make sure that ‘I’ don’t screw up your Wordpress installation, here’s a proven, reliable tutorial. Make sure you back your files before proceeding with the tutorial.
What this does is it simply removes the instructions provided for the Wordpress blog to put the nofollow tag there. So it will do what the plugin does at the first place, without wasting any resources.
Very useful info! At the moment I didn’t remove the no-follow tag though, but if you do, then you should take a pre-caution not to slow down your server even more!
If we use Super Cache plugin then it won’t load the server. i guess.
what do u think?
True! There’s no point in putting extra weight on your server when you can easily work around it.
Yes Nihar, you’re right. But the thing is many bloggers don’t use it simply because it makes them give up on certain things that they take for granted on their blogs. Dynamic content I mean.
Thanks for the link love! Your timing was great as well since I just upgraded to 2.6 and forgot to update the post with any line changes. I just made the edits to the post – and, ironically, to my own blog.
Thanks Again!
Doug
No problem Doug. My Pleasure.
Wow another thing that needs to be done, I have tried to install the wp super cache but I was getting 500 internal errors after. Thanks
for the info.