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Follow you, follow me

By Dougal | Published: February 15, 2007

Two years ago today, we released WordPress version 1.5. This was a pretty major release that introduced several new features that are still major staples of the current 2.1 branch: the Dashboard, Themes, and Pages. It also added a minor new change which was mildly controversial to some: comments were automatically flagged with the ‘nofollow’ attribute.

The rel="nofollow" idea had good intentions: to give content producers a way to link to another site without implying that they approve of it. [...]

Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Plugins, Search, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, commentspam, Google, Metadata, PageRank, plugin, Spam, WordPress, yahoo | 89 Comments

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