Commenting is an integral part of the link building process and also it is used by us(bloggers) to get noticed particularly among fellow bloggers. Usually comments in wordpress are “No Follow” by default i.e they don’t pass any link juice to the comments.
Without going into the debatable discussion on “Link Juice Theory”, I would be sharing how to make comments do follow in wordpress.
How To Remove No Follow From WordPress Comments in 2025?
To make comments “Do Follow” in wordpress simply follow these steps :-
1. Login to your FTP to access files of your blog.
2. In wp-includes folder find file”comment-template.php”.
3. Take the backup of this file first.
4. Find the text “get_comment_author_link” some where in the file.
5. You will find this code at one of the place where the above phrase is located
$return = “<a href=’$url’ rel=’external nofollow’ class=’url’>$author</a>”;
6. Replace ” rel=’external nofollow’ ” with “rel=’external’ “.
7. Save the file and you are done!!
