I’ll be keeping an eye on this plugin as well and once I try it out I’ll make a post about it too. Get you some of the linky love that this site deserves since you do have a lot of well thought out posts here.

Meanwhile, I figure what I have is at least functional for those who aren’t afraid to modify a few lines of code. (You’ll also soon see I extended to comments now too. That’s easier for me!)

It would be easy to adapt the WP script into this environment. Looking forward to your advancements in the coding, will be looking at it intently.

Still, the idea was triggered by conversations about Chow that occurred in forums. I do know that right now there are bloggers who might want to delink Chow because they think his site has become spammy and lowq uality. That’s why I’m using his site as an example.

But the plugin-idea has much, much broader application. That’s why I like Andy’s idea of making an administrative panel. That’s going to take me a little while though because I think it means I need to
a) write something that creates a new table in the database so I can store the “blacklist” of domains.
b) write the admin panel (that calls a function– to be written– that pulls the domains out of the table.
c) modify the simple plugin to use the domains in the database.

Knowing this, I decided to just release the simple plugin for now, and let modestly brave souls edit the one line.

So thanks for creating this. And sorry that I only commented on Chow. I’ll definitely down and watch the development of this plugin.

Basically, I would need to get it to always filter after any do follow plugin is called. Because if DoFollow works last, it will just strip the nofollows out!

However, if you want a quick fix and are willing to edit plugins, I describe the very few lines of code required to modify the do_follow plugin to leave no follows in johnchow.com links!

It’s valuable much more generally. For example: I actually know of an instance where a feminist blogger sold out his domain to a porn site operator. He had tons of backlinks, and some of those who granted backlinks wanted to take them back. My own first domain was slammed in 2000 and for a while was a porn site. I had to do a lot of work to get my links to that domain name out!

So, you can see how valuable this plugin could be. It’s more than Chow.

I’m a mechanical engineer, not a programme, so you see I always need to read to seek out the various commands. But, it will be done.

I’ll also be adding a feature that makes exceptions for certain categories because based on postie board suggested that some people did “official” link exchanges where they got one, and he gave one. But later they gave loads. So, I could let people put things like that in some sort of “link exchange” category (which they can call whatever they wish.) Then, the plugin always grants that exchange, but not others.

I forsee several versions.