Joomla 4 & 5 – Native Nofollow Plugin (JNofollow)

JNofollow is a modern, lightweight Content plugin that controls rel and target on external links in your Joomla articles and custom content. In one click you can enforce rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" and (optionally) target="_blank" site-wide — while still keeping fine-grained exceptions where you need them.

Developed by Alexander Müller – SEO NW. See also: JStats (Matomo & GA for Joomla).

Key features

• Smart external-link handling: add nofollow, noopener, noreferrer and (optionally) target="_blank".
• Flexible “rel” strategy: Keep existing rel (extend it) or Overwrite it fully.
• Allow- & deny-lists:
  • Domain Whitelist → treat partners as internal (no changes).
  • Domain Blacklist → always force nofollow (overrides any bypass).
• Per-link bypass options (optional):
  • If a link already has rel="noopener"/noreferrer/ugc/sponsored (and not nofollow) → keep it FOLLOW.
  • Links with specific CSS classes (e.g. follow) → keep FOLLOW.
  • data-follow="1|true|yes" → keep FOLLOW.
  • Option: remove an existing nofollow when a bypass matches.
• Article switches:
  • Exclude an article:
  • Exclude a section: …
  • Fallback tokens for legacy content: …
• Export / Import settings (via backend AJAX tool) for quick transfer between sites.
• Bilingual UI (English & German) + built-in Help with examples.

How it works (quick examples)

• Default enforcement (site-wide): <a href="https://example.com">…</a> → <a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">…</a>
• Keep FOLLOW for a single link (editor sets rel): <a href="https://partner.tld" rel="noopener">…</a> → stays FOLLOW (no nofollow), if bypass is enabled.
• Whitelist: add partner.tld → links to that domain are treated as internal.
• Blacklist: add spam.tld → links to that domain always receive rel="nofollow".

System requirements

• Joomla 4 or Joomla 5
• PHP: Joomla 4 → 8.0+ (recommended), Joomla 5 → 8.1+ (recommended)

Download (free)

• https://jnofollow.com/_download/plg_content_nofollow.zip
  SHA-256: b3c19d1db36c3aa6616a36b96bd1b027ed3bf7e6a3ddc6392588dc29409ee089
• Updates via the native Joomla Update System.

Verification (optional)

# Linux
sha256sum plg_content_nofollow.zip

# macOS
shasum -a 256 plg_content_nofollow.zip

# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash .\plg_content_nofollow.zip -Algorithm SHA256 | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Hash

Support & feedback

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License

JNofollow is released under the GNU General Public License v3. Read the full license at gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html. Disclaimer: Provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind.

Thank you for your interest in JNofollow. We hope it saves you time and keeps your outbound links tidy.