[Resolved] rel=”me” for socialmedia links

[Torsten]

Hello,

I would like to have at the socialmedia links the rel=”me” attribute. Only this is not possible, not even via html.

What is the reason for this? And how can this be done?

Best regards

Torsten

[Ying]

Hi there,

How did you ad the social media links? Are you using the buttons block of Generateblocks?

If so, we can make it work using a PHP snippet.

Let me know!

[Torsten]

Hello Ying,

thanks for the quick reply.

I use the buttons block of Generateblocks.

When I insert the rel=”me” attribute with html instead of visual an error is reported.

Best regards

Torsten

[Ying]

Yes, the blocks can not be edited as HTML simply.

Try this:
1. When you add the link, select nofollow.

2. Add a CSS class to the button block, eg. social-link, so we can target the block in the PHP of step 3.
https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/adding-additional-css-classes-to-blocks/

3. Add this PHP snippet to replace the nofollow with me:

add_filter( 'render_block', function( $block_content, $block ) {
	
    if ( ! empty( $block['attrs']['className'] ) && strpos( $block['attrs']['className'], 'social-link' ) !== false  ) {		
		
		$block_content = str_replace('nofollow','me', $block_content );
	}
   return $block_content  ;
}, 10, 2 );

[Torsten]

Hello Ying,

works perfectly 🙂

Thank you for the extremely fast solution.

Best regards

Torsten

[Ying]

No Problem, glad to help 🙂

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