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I see target=”_blank” has been added in 1.2.1, but why not rel=”nofollow” ???

It’s not good to have SEO link juice bleeding to other sites. Facebook, Twitter, every other social network includes it. It’s pretty standard practice. Leaving it off links makes your site a target for spammers. This should be on all user generated external links.

The URL link needs to be target=”_blank” too.

Summary: Please add target=”_blank” and rel=”nofollow” to both the URL link and article title link.

Thank you.

It’s been two releases and this still has not been fixed.

That’s interesting, but I’d rather not install another plugin for such a trivial change.

For links within the activity text, can’t BuddyBoss just make another filter modeled after the bp_activity_make_nofollow_filter which adds target=”_blank” to external links?

As for the title text, all you need to do is:

Change line 421 of wall-functions.php from this:
$updated_content .= '<span class="bb_link_preview_title"><a href="' . esc_url( $_POST[ 'bb_link_url' ] ) . '" target="_blank">' . addslashes( $_POST[ 'bb_link_title' ] ) . '</a></span>';

to this:
$updated_content .= '<span class="bb_link_preview_title"><a href="' . esc_url( $_POST[ 'bb_link_url' ] ) . '" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">' . addslashes( $_POST[ 'bb_link_title' ] ) . '</a></span>';