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| Name | Name Redactor |
| Version | 1.0.1 |
| Author | Joakim Valla |
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| Last updated | 2013-04-08 04:41:00 |
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Name Redactor plugins ads the following DB table(s) to your Wordpress blog database:| Table name | Table size (in bytes) |
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| wp_name_redactor_opt_in_opt_out | 32768 |
| wp_name_redactor_bots | 32768 |
Note: This plugin requires at least version 3.3 of Wordpress.
The Name Redactor is a Wordpress plugin which allows Wordpress users to hide personal data from search engines. As the name of the plugin implies, the type of content we are talking about in this context are personal names. The plugin works by checking whether the visitor to the site is human or a search engine robot. If the visitor is a search engine robot, the plugin will redact any personal names before delivering the content, replacing them with the text [redacted]. To human visitors, the names will appear as normal.
Purpose of the Name Redactor
The web is full of personal names, which is usually attached to some contextual data (e.g. utterances, images, etc.). If these personal names are indexed by search engines, along with the contextual data attached to them, both will be discoverable by anyone searching for a specific name. While some such discoveries may be beneficial to the subject, others may be harmful. The purpose of the Name Redactor is not to block search engines from accessing your Wordpress site or indexing your content. The purpose is to avoid having personal names being indexed along with contextual data attached to those names.
Features:
- Manually tag names to be redacted in pages, posts and comments by using the 'Redact' button in the Text Editor.
- Automatically redact names in pages, posts and comments, using a simple set of rules.
- Create an opt in list of names that should always be redacted, regardless of any automatic name detection.
- Create an opt out list of names that should not be redacted automatically.
Detailed description
The Name Redactor plugin works by detecting if a visitor to the site is a
search engine robot, and if so, the plugin will redact any personal names
(which have been tagged with <redact content="name"></redact>) before
delivering the content, replacing them with the text [redacted].
The tagging can either be done manually by the publisher, or automatically
by the program.
Manually tag names
When you install the plugin for the first time, it is set by default to only redact names that have been manually tagged. If you go to add a new post, page, or comment (or edit already existing content) and select the Text Editor, you will see that a new button has been added to the pre-existing ones. This button, labeled redact, allows you to tag a name in the text. Simply select the name you want to tag, and press the redact button. Alternatively, place the cursor before a name, press the redact button to add the name redact tag, place the cursor after the name, and press the redact button again to close the tag. Note that these tags will only be visible in the page source of the website. Before publishing something, you can view the text from a bot's point of view by pressing the 'Preview' button (note that you first need to select this option from the plugin settings menu).
Also note that when uninstalling the plugin, any manually tagged names will remain tagged. If you want to remove the tags, you will have to remove them manually as well, by going back and editing the content.
Automatic name detection
You can also set the plugin to automatically try to detect personal names, and redact them accordingly. This automatic name detection is accomplished by using a simple set of rules, written as regular expressions: 1. It will match a single word with the first letter capitalized, as long as that word is not at the beginning of the sentence. 2. It will match two or more consecutive words starting with the first letter capitalized, as long as the first word is not at the beginning of the sentence.
Names that have been tagged manually will continue to be tagged until the tags are manually removed (so if you at a later date should wish to remove tags from a name, you will have to go back and edit the post, comment or page in question). Automatic tagging is done on the spot whenever the content is requested by a search engine bot. This means that the content in the database is left unchanged, and no tags are saved along with the text.
Detecting whether or not a visitor to the site is a web crawler, is done by checking the "User-Agent" header of the client software originating the request (see the Wikipedia page for more information on this). Whenever a visitor requests to view the content, be it a page, comment, or post, the plugin will check the user-agent string up against a list containing a set of known search engine bot names. If the User-Agent matches a name in the list, the plugin will redact any tagged content before returning it to the bot. Upon installation, the plugin will add a default set of bot names to the list. The user can then freely add or delete names to or from the list.
Note that while the plugin is primarily meant as a way of preventing search engines from indexing personal names, it can, in theory, also be used to prevent disclosure of other types of personal data, by manually tagging it in the same manner as you would do names.
Plugin settings
You can change the settings for the plugin in the 'Name Redactor Settings' sub menu, located in the 'Tools' menu in the admin panel. The Name Redactor settings menu is organized into three different options pages, with tabs to make navigation easier. The option pages are organized as follows: Options, Opt-in/opt-out, and Bots.
- The Options page allows you to change all the different settings of the plugin, like which redact-mode to use. Each setting is accompanied by an explanation of what it does.
- The Opt-in/opt-out page allows you to create a list of names that should always be redacted, regardless of any automatic name detection, or names that should not be redacted automatically. Each name in the list is accompanied by an opt-in or opt-out status. Names that are opt-in will be tagged automatically, while names that are opt-out will not. You can add or remove names to/from the list, as well as change the opt-in/opt-out status of each name in the list at any time.
- The Bots page displays a list of search engine bot names. Whenever someone visits the site, the plugin will check the visitor (or rather, its user agent) up against this list, and if the visitor matches a name in the list (which means the visitor is a search engine bot), personal names that have been tagged will be redacted before the content is returned to the bot. For example, the search engine bot from Google is named Googlebot. So by adding the name Googlebot to the list, you avoid personal names (that have been tagged for redaction) being indexed by Google. The plugin comes with a default set of bot names, and you can add or remove names at any time.
The original idea for this plugin comes from Gisle Hannemyr http://hannemyr.com/index.php.
