[Hexo] Use hexo-filter-nofollow plugin to add nofollow attribute to all external links automatically in Hexo

Posted on 2020-10-17 Edited on 2023-09-02 In Site , Hexo , Hexo Plugin Views: Word count in article: 1.7k Reading time ≈ 2 mins.

hexo-filter-nofollow

Hexo is a fast, simple & powerful blog framework. It use plugins to provide features powerful APIs for limitless extensibility. Various plugins are available to support most template engines (EJS, Pug, Nunjucks, and many others). Easily integrate with existing NPM packages (Babel, PostCSS, Less/Sass, etc).

hexo-filter-nofollow plugin add nofollow attribute to all external links automatically.

hexo-filter-nofollow add `rel=“noopener external nofollow noreferrer” to all external links for security, privacy and SEO. Read more.

Installation

Use npm to install hexo-filter-nofollow package.

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$ npm install hexo-filter-nofollow --save

$ hexo clean

Configuration

It will generate sitemap.xml in the public folder by default after hexo-filter-nofollow installation.

You can configure this plugin in ./_config.yml.

nofollow:
  enable: true
  field: site
  exclude:
    - 'exclude1.com'
    - 'exclude2.com'

The follow is the options:

enable - Enable the plugin. Default value is true.
field - The scope you want the plugin to proceed, can be ‘site’ or ‘post’. Default value is site.
- ‘post’ - Only add nofollow attribute to external links in your post content
- ‘site’ - Add nofollow attribute to external links of whole sites
exclude - Exclude hostname. Specify subdomain when applicable, including www. ‘exclude1.com’ does not apply to www.exclude1.com nor en.exclude1.com.