WP Puzzle

Alexis Vovk

<p>Hides external links from indexing by search engines using a jQuery masking links script ( <a href="http://avovkdesign.com/kak-spryatat-ssylku-ot-indeksacii.html" rel="nofollow ugc">more about the method in</a> )</p>
<h4>FEATURES:</h4>
<ul>
<li>One click on editor button help to hide external links in search engine index</li>
<li>Automatically disallows indexing of all commenter’s links.</li>
<li>Simple shortcode [link][/link] easily hides any links in widgets or comments texts.</li>
</ul>
<h4>USAGE</h4>
<ol>
<li>In text editor place cursor on link</li>
<li>Click on HideLinks button to add shortcode before and after link. Sample: <code>[link]external link[/link]</code></li>
</ol>
<h4>TESTING</h4>
<p>After installing and activating plugin, hidden links look like ordinary ones. This moment can mislead and complicate work of plugin.</p>
<p>You can check whether plugin works correctly in two ways.</p>
<ol>
<li>On page, where there are hidden link or user comments, press keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+U — new tab with source code opens.</li>
<li>Now press Ctrl+F on keyboard — field for text searching appears. Enter phrase in it data-link and press Enter on your keyboard.</li>
<li>Browser found in source code all matches with necessary phrase (it is present in hidden link). In search box to the right of entered phrase, inscription with number of found matches appears (i.e. hidden links), and near — arrows for transition to previous and next found fragment.</li>
<li>If in found fragment after phrase data-link goes link address you have hidden (or site address commentator) — it means that plugin hides link.</li>
</ol>
<p>Sample: <code><span data-link="http://mylink.com" data-target="_blank" title="Title" class="link">anchor</span></code> not like this: <code><a href="http://mylink.com" target="_blank" title="Title" class="">anchor</a></code></p>
<h4>PRO Features</h4>
<p><a href="https://wp-puzzle.com/hide-links/" rel="nofollow ugc">HideLinks Pro</a> allow:</p>
<ol>
<li>Automatically hide all external links in post content</li>
<li>Control script including (inline or file)</li>
</ol>
<h4>Extra</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wp-puzzle.com/docs/ru/hide-links" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/wppuzzle/hidelinks" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a> for issues and merge request</li>
</ul>


Hide Links

Closure of external links from indexing using jQuery script.

Rahul Mondal

<p>No-Indexer is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add a checkbox in all page and post settings sidebar to set a noindex meta tag for specific pages and also the pages exclude from robots.txt and sitemap.xml.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>After activating the plugin, go to the edit page screen for any page.</li>
<li>In the page settings sidebar, you will find a checkbox labeled “Noindex this page”.</li>
<li>Check the checkbox if you want to add a noindex meta tag to the page.</li>
<li>Update or publish the page to apply the changes.</li>
</ol>


No-Indexer

Add a checkbox in page, post, and custom type settings to instruct search engines not to index the content, excluding it from robots.txt and sitemap.

Hide Links vs No-Indexer