Resolving Comment URL Errors in WordPress2.7
Although WordPress 2.7 was released some time ago, a lot of people are just now getting around to upgrading their blogs with the latest version of the popular platform. Now that people are doing this, I am started to get asked questions about why things don’t work or look the same. One that has come up multiple times recently has to do with links in the comment section fo a post. After a 2.7 upgrade, many users are noticing that when a person leaves a comment, their URL link in that persons name goes to their URL but with the addition of some garbled mess that looks like “%20%20do-not-follow”, landing you on a “401 page not found” link. The solution to fix this is pretty simple.
Every person that asked me about this, upon further investigation, was using the Google Analyticator plugin, which tracks site traffic with Google Analytics. Older version of the plugin didn’t work so well with 2.7, but fortunately there is an update. If you are experiencing this problem, go to the Google Analyticator page, download the newest version of the plugin (2.3 as of this writing) and upload it to your wp-content/plugins directory. Problem solved!
