Question

For some reason Kunena puts nofollow links for everything internal. This makes sense for all external links but certainly not for internal ones. I want Google to index the paths associated with the forum posts I have.

I’m hoping someone knows how to remove the nofollow links. It looks like this file is the main one: components/com_kunena/lib/kunena.link.class.php

There are a few functions where I remove the nofollow links such as:

static function GetHrefLink($link, $name, $title = '', $rel = 'nofollow', $class = '', $anker = '', $attr = '') {
            return '<a ' . ($class ? 'class="' . $class . '" ' : '') . 'href="' . $link . ($anker ? ('#' . $anker) : '') . '" title="' . $title . '"' . ($rel ? ' rel="' . $rel . '"' : '') . ($attr ? ' ' . $attr : '') . '>' . $name . '</a>';
    }

    //
    // Basic universal href link
    //
    static function GetSefHrefLink($link, $name, $title = '', $rel = 'nofollow', $class = '', $anker = '', $attr = '') {
            $uri = $link instanceof JURI ? $link : JURI::getInstance($link);
            if ($anker) $uri->setFragment($anker);
            return JHTML::_('kunenaforum.link', $uri, $name, $title, $class, $rel, $attr);
    }

I’ve tried removing the parameter everywhere, I tried just leaving it empty and I’ve tried using follow as a replacement. I’ve also tried looking for every single place where nofollow is shown in the whole Kunena component and tried removing those. Still no luck. Anyone with any ideas?

Kunena: 2.0.2
Joomla: 2.5.7

Answer 1

Resolved this by changing this file: administrator/components/com_kunena/libraries/view.php

Find:

public function getTopicLink

Change this line:

return JHTML::_('kunenaforum.link', $uri, $content, $title, $class, 'nofollow'); 

to:

return JHTML::_('kunenaforum.link', $uri, $content, $title, $class, 'follow'); 

This exists in several spots.