DoFollow Case by Case

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Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 58% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

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Reviewers like the per-comment nofollow control, though some report it doesn't strip nofollow as expected and one hit a conflict with W3 Total Cache.

1. ★★★★★ Mevo

   4.8y ago

   Very useful plugin. It however lacks the ability to act on the comment author URL on a case by case basis. Currently, the box only acts on the links in the comment. Suggestion has been made in the support section. I will definitely add the 5th star to my review if this gets improved.

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2. ★★★★★ vormaro

   9.5y ago

   Muito bom este plugin, recomendo

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3. ★★★★★ ClickyB

   11.6y ago

   Installed plug-in, added my email to the “white-list” and added a new comment… I couldn’t get rid of the rel=”nofollow”, every time I save the comment it just comes back!

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4. ★★★★★ giac

   12.0y ago

   Conflict with W3 Total Cache, unluckily it is unusable…

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5. ★★★★★ Web-Alliance

   12.1y ago

   a great plugin, which is really useful for the comments section. You have all control on the comments, and you can decide to give a rel=nofollow or not, for only the comments you think deserve it

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6. ★★★★★ randaloulton

   12.3y ago

   Shoot I wish it actually worked and removed nofollow on my own comments but it doesn’t lol. Oh well. I’ll keep hunting.

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7. ★★★★★ ParkerWest

   12.7y ago

   *** The authors of this plugin responded to my problem and rolled out an update to fix the issue. It does exactly what I need it to do now and I really appreciate their help. Thank you! *** I wish this plugin worked properly because it would solve an exact issue that I’ve been trying to fix. However, upon activation it turns all comment author names into links that point to the page the comment is has been left on. This happens when the comment author did not include a website to associate with his/her name, but does not change the links if a comment author did include one. I posted the issue in the support forum, but it has been over a week and there has been no response. Due to this, I’m forced to give it a one-star rating. I plan to keep it deactivated in my plugins file in hopes that they update it thereby fixing the problem. But, it appears that the developers may have abandoned this project.

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8. ★★★★★ casababel

   12.8y ago

   This plugin makes it easy to include nofollow links in posts, something that should be a functionality of WordPress, but isn’t.

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4 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 DoFollow Case by Case <= 3.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2025-10-26 CVE-2025-62102 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 3.5.1 Patched in 3.6.0
2. Medium · 5.5 DoFollow Case by Case <= 3.5.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-05-07 CVE-2025-47625 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 3.5.1 Patched in 3.6.0
3. Medium · 4.3 DoFollow Case by Case <= 3.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2025-05-07 CVE-2025-47624 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 3.5.1 Patched in 3.6.0
4. Medium · 4.3 DoFollow Case by Case <= 3.4.2 Cross-Site Request Forgery via getEmail and getUrl ↗
   2023-09-22 CVE-2023-49197 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects < 3.5.0 Patched in 3.5.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 131 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 107 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-10-16 2K+ → 1K+ down after 22 days in tier
2. 2024-09-24 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2024-09-21 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2024-09-20 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2024-09-19 2K+ → 1K+ down after 7 days in tier
6. 2024-09-12 1K+ → 2K+ up after 39 days in tier
7. 2024-08-04 2K+ → 1K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• N Nofollow Case by Case 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• Nofollow for external link 9K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D
• AnyComment 5K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D
• Bulk Delete Comments 5K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• Comments Like Dislike 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• One Click Close Comments 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C

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DoFollow Case by Case: 1K+ active installs, 4.0★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/dofollow-case-by-case