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• Beginner Usergroup: Guest Joined: Total Topics: 0 Total Comments: 0	• #1 - Quote - Permalink Posted Feb 18, 2008 - 12:27 AM: Hi Is it possible to customise links to only affect one (or more...) specific categories? I have one category where I want to ensure that outgoing links are tagged with the rel="nofollow" attribute. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
•babrees Expert Usergroup: Customer Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Location: England Total Topics: 391 Total Comments: 1303	•babrees #2 - Quote - Permalink Posted Feb 18, 2008 - 12:47 AM: I am not sure if conditionals would work in the External links appendage, but you could use an if statement in your template... <IF {CATID} is ##><a href="{TRACKLINKURL}" {EXTERNALLINKS} rel="nofollow">{LINKTITLE}</a><OTHERWISE><a href="{TRACKLINKURL}" {EXTERNALLINKS} >{LINKTITLE}</a></IF>
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #3 - Quote - Permalink Posted Feb 20, 2008 - 5:12 AM: The external links appendage involves things that aren't items in categories, so don't test for a category there, just edit the link bit template (Admin -> Templates -> Manage Templates -> Subtemplates).
• Beginner Usergroup: Guest Joined: Total Topics: 0 Total Comments: 0	• #4 - Quote - Permalink Posted Feb 23, 2008 - 2:41 AM: So just to get this right... In linkbit.tpl, I add the following (making sure that I add the proper category ID number)? <IF {CATID} is ##><a href="{TRACKLINKURL}" {EXTERNALLINKS} rel="nofollow">{LINKTITLE}</a><OTHERWISE><a href="{TRACKLINKURL}" {EXTERNALLINKS} >{LINKTITLE}</a></IF> A couple of questions. Where exactly will I add this line? Will this work with rewritten URLs? Thanks.
•babrees Expert Usergroup: Customer Joined: Aug 19, 2005 Location: England Total Topics: 391 Total Comments: 1303	•babrees #5 - Quote - Permalink 1 of 1 people found this comment helpful Posted Feb 23, 2008 - 3:19 AM: dt wrote: So just to get this right... In linkbit.tpl, I add the following (making sure that I add the proper category ID number)? <IF {CATID} is ##><a href="{TRACKLINKURL}" {EXTERNALLINKS} rel="nofollow">{LINKTITLE}</a><OTHERWISE><a href="{TRACKLINKURL}" {EXTERNALLINKS} >{LINKTITLE}</a></IF> A couple of questions. Where exactly will I add this line? Will this work with rewritten URLs? Thanks. Yes, that is correct. Replace <a href="{TRACKLINKURL}" {EXTERNALLINKS}>{LINKTITLE}</a>
• Beginner Usergroup: Guest Joined: Total Topics: 0 Total Comments: 0	• #6 - Quote - Permalink Posted Feb 23, 2008 - 3:42 AM: Thanks. Much appreciated.
•Paul developer Usergroup: Administrator Joined: Dec 20, 2001 Location: Diamond Springs, California Total Topics: 61 Total Comments: 7868	•Paul #7 - Quote - Permalink Posted Feb 23, 2008 - 6:16 AM: Rewriting makes no difference.

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