Title: Replytocom Controller
Author: ClaytonL
Published: <strong>March 21, 2013</strong>
Last modified: December 11, 2016

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Replytocom Controller

 By [ClaytonL](https://profiles.wordpress.org/claytonl/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/replytocom-controller.1.2.zip)

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## Description

Hate duplicate content? Hate wasting server resources?

Replytocom Controller gives you the option to remove “?replytocom” from comment 
urls and optionally redirect visitors & bots who try to use it anyway to a destination
of your choice.

For those concerned about duplicate content for SEO purposes, the benefits should
be obvious.

If you want to speed up your WordPress server, the redirection will let you stop
wasting resources serving up the same page over and over again to a crawler bot.
Even worse, pages with a question mark in the url aren’t typically cached by caching
plugins like WP Super Cache. That means that those bot crawls are eating up way 
more resources then a normal url would. Now you can send them to a cached copy of
that page, a less resource intensive page, or any other url.

Of course, the cost of all this is that visitors can’t have JavaScript turned off
if they want to leave replies in threaded comments.

Borrows code from:
 * https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/ *
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/replytocom-redirector/

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to Settings->Replytocom Controller if you want to override default settings

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[EXCELLENT](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-4429/)󠁿

 [bloup](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bloup/) February 8, 2017

It works like a charm for those who use the regular commenting system from Wordpress.
It removes the ?replytocom and we see only #commentXX It is very useful especially
for me because i got rid from the canonical URL & by the past in the parameter URL
of google webmaster tools i systematically saw the replytocom parameter. Still today
Googlebot still wonder wether replytocom is a dumb parameter or a url to a new page.
This plugin fixes it all and it is very lightweight.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Replytocom Controller” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ ClaytonL ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/claytonl/)

[Translate “Replytocom Controller” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/replytocom-controller)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/replytocom-controller/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/replytocom-controller/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/replytocom-controller/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/replytocom-controller/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2016/12/11 – 1.2

 * Fixed parse error php < 5.4

#### 2016/12/10 – 1.1

 * Brought code up to date

#### 2013/03/20 – 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **90+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/replytocom-controller/)
 * Tags
 * [bandwidth saving](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bandwidth-saving/)[bots](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bots/)
   [duplicate content](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/duplicate-content/)
   [replytocom](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/replytocom/)[seo](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/replytocom-controller/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ ClaytonL ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/claytonl/)

## Support

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