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Hi Steve. I've been looking for a good way to do this for some time. Very excited to try out the new module! :-)

This is what I like about Joomla!: scratch your own itch without core modifications.

However, you might want to reword the "Why a New Module and Not a Hack?" section there as you're using the word "hack" in two different senses. Had to think about what you were saying there!

Ideally of course it would have been great to achieve this properly and to actualy install a replacement to the menu creator. maybe in J1.6 it will be possible to replace each individual part (i was going to say component but thats confusing )in the engine.

For now what I really is the ability to override languages

Useful, thanks. That's a nice capability to hide secondary content like TOS pages or imprints from the search engines. A slight correction: The attribute would be spelled rel="nofollow" (without the blank)

Hi, does this module work for Joomfish 2.0RC as well?
anybody tested it?

Ive been looking for this last time but totally forget it
thanks for this Steve.

Pardon my english understand, does this module auto detect when user right click and open in new windows?.

how do i set some of the menus to add no-follow.
my site now its indexing my mainmenu as site desc. damm..

thanks

There is another guide for direct coding.
http://www.vitez-studios.com/d...tems.html

Steve, I think this is great if you use this solution for your own site but it seems a bit impractical if you are looking to provide this as a solution to 50 business clients where they may not even have time to have training over this.

I have not tried this but it seems a better option to make JCE Editor Plugin and have it as a completely new icon on the toolbar.

In any case, good work!

This is just what I was looking for. up until now what I did was create a manual module, and insert manually the link which I wanted to be no followed.

COOL!
I have been looking for this tool a long time.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=466&t=311068
Thank you very very much.

I'm really glad that ou are finding this useful. I'll be honest and didnt really see a need for it when Steve asked me if I could make the module but I guess he was correct (as usual) and there is a real need.

Hopefuly this need will be addressed in a future release of Joomla and you wont need this module anymore.

Why doesn't the rel="nofollow" show up in the HTML?

FYI, for some reason J 1.5.7 didn't recognize the XML module in this ZIP file until I unpacked it and then re-compressed it into a new ZIP file. Not sure if that's just my system or what, but thought I'd mention it.

Thanks for the module!!

i still get the default behavior (new window), and there is no nofollow in the code, just the std new window code. using Joomla 1.0.15 Stable

nevermind, didnt publish the mod. thank you, this is VERY handy. i wish i could add it to any menu item.

Did I miss an instruction file for the installation? I see a comment reference to changing line 118 but which file. I did publish the module. I gather I should unpublish mod_mainmenu.

Hello

I'm using J1.5.7. The main menu is displayed by default in my template, using:


No menu is enabled using modules, but the template appears to use mod_mainmenu anyway. Using install/uninstall module back end, the mod_mainmenu is listed as a module and is greyed out. It cannot be made active for deletion, so mod_mainmenu cannot be replaced with mod_nfmainmenu.

What can I do to make this work?

Many thanks for this Brian and Steve.

Some folk on the NF forums needed to have menu links open with Ninja Shadowbox so I modded your module, simply replacing rel="nofollow" with rel="shadowbox" and it worked great.

There isn't an attach feature here or I would upload it.

Thanks again.
Cheers.

I need to use the mod_mainmenu_ml for my joomfish translations.

How can I solf this issue?

Here's the link to the shadowbox version (refer my earlier comment). Both 1.0 and 1.5 versions are included.
http://ninjaforge.com/media/sh...FIRST.zip

Shadowbox is a free GPL extension
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,4577/Itemid,35/

The only code change was rel="nofollow" to rel="shadowbox". You can always open it up and change it again if you have a different pop-up script (rel="lighbox", rel="modalbox", rel="slimbox" etc)

I can't support it unfortunately, but feel free to hassle Steve and Brian

Hi Steve... just letting you know i'm getting an error at the very end of this page:
Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier '>' in /home/alledia/public_html/index.php on line 538

Obviously don't publish this comment

Cheers
Mark

Ahhh ok.

Hmmm... seems jomcomment swallowed my link. Take two:
http://ninjaforge.com/media/sh..._FIRST.zip

Hi,
it seems very interesting. After installing this new menu and unpublish old, do I have to create all new links in new menu? Is some way to collect old links? I will try it on this domain www.adriastar.com

Just done a short write up about this matter in a blog post and linked to this post for others to download.

http://www.wowjoomla.com/WowJoomla-News/2008/10/08/nofollow-link-to-low-value-content.html

what I would be interested in is how to have an option for each and every article/post that can have the rel=nofollow attribute assigned to it if needed. I guess this could only be done as a hack. My interest is since I would be looking at using a footer HTML module to display anchor based text links with rel=nofollow, sure I could do that within the codes and I guess we would develop a module that would do that suitably, but an option for other pages would be a nice option to have.

keep up the good work guys. shadow box menu working good too!

fantastic, thanks! can't wait to try it out.

There is another guide for direct coding.
http://www.vitez-studios.com/d...tems.html

Hi ILJ,

Is this method safe? does it affect anything else besides just adding rel=nofollow attributes to the navigation links?

Thanks

Thx very much.
I will use it in my site to see the effect.

http://www.descargarwindows.com

Hi Steve,

Sorry, but "I added a step #2 to make it clearer:
2) Publish this in place of mod_mainmenu"

...is still not clear to me. I have several modules based on mod_mainmenu. Do I have to re-create them all in mod_nfmainmenu?

and what about articles?

I guess I need to know specifically what "publish" means, and what "in place of" means.

Is there something large and base that I am missing here?

Cindy
-Joomla newbie

Looking at all the files it replaces, what are the chances that some com/mod or something I have used will get wrecked? Or would I have to have manually, consciously made changes to these files that could be lost?

Having re-built once, I am not keen to do it again. I know you have a restore set of files, but its the "if you've made any changes they will be lost" that worries me.

Cindy

Whhoops ignore, delete the above post. Little confusion here as I look at different solutions, I referenced the wrong fix.
Cindy

wow! have been looking for this for a while! and free... you spoil us.

I use yootheme menu. When I use this module loose all menu funtion from yootheme as javascript.

Does anyone knows how to set up this module and behave exacly as mod_main menu??

I have tried module suffix class and menu class but not works.

thanks

Dani

Hi all =)

I installed the mod-nfmainmenu for 1.0 tonight and its not working. Its not adding nofollow to any of the options I choose as far as the Onclick select box. So I went in and edited the code and made it by pass the switch so it always puts a nofollow no matter what. Still no dice. I tried doing it inside the switch and outside the switch.

I still am using mod_mainmenu for all the other menus except for one. Is this the problem?

Light and Love and Healing to you,
-Patrick Arden McNally

How do you "publish this in place of mod_mainmenu"? all the mod_mainmenu are disabled in my system. I need to choose a location for this new menu. How do I go about doing that?

Hi Steve,

thanks for the response. I am familiar with publishing a module in Joomla. My problem is that all of my mod_menu modules are:
1- disabled
2- and have a left position or user3

when I publish the new module in either position left of user 3 of course, it does not replace my top menu. I am not sure if this is a problem with my template. what is the typical position for a top menu module?

Hey,

I would love to use this module but I am not sure if I can use it due to my site design. I want to test it out on a blog www.searchbrat.com. But you can see I use the mainmenu module for the "Blog Categories" menu on the right. I use a special menu type for the top. This is where I would like to use it (add nofollow to contact / about).

I know its not a big deal for this site but for other sites I am working on, it would be great to get this working.

Thanks

Kieran

Forgot to mention the above code needs to be edited in modules/mod_menu/helper.php

Thank you

Are the instructions for joomla 1.0 also? Can't seem to find "On Click, Open in: New Window in Browser Navigation" when I click the link button?

Hi Steve:

Is it possible to use this nofollow somehow in place of the "top menu" / pill menu on the rhuk_milkyway template in Joomla 1.57? I'm getting killed by google bot indexing useless pages. Thanks in advance.

Steve: After taking a second look, couldn't one just simply add a line in to robots.txt to prevent the robot follow?

With kind regards.

excuse me
i have a problem with shadowbox , when i enable sh404sef ,or use seo in joomla , rel="shadobox" do not work and when i disable sh404sef and remove .htaccess , it work.
how can i resolve it ?

Open helper.php and change the following line (#347)

$data = ''.$image.$tmp->name.'';

$data = ''.$image.$tmp->name.'';

Thanks everyone for the comments and Steve for this
article!

Thanks for the module. Is working im my domain www.fabricandosites.com.br

Thanks.
Is working im my domain:
www.fabricandosites.com.br

Great Module, works perfekt!

Will you offer this for the topnav (e.g. ja_rutile template) as well? I´d really need that!

Greetz,

Simon