[Steven Zahm]

Well, a quick Google search lead me to this plugin, Ultimate Nofollow. It works with Connections … the only bug that I noticed is when editing a link, the tick box for nofollow is not checked even though it is actually set. A quick scroll thru the code doesn’t leave me confident that it’ fix the underlying issue though because it does not add a filter to ensure the rel attribute is valid.

You might be able to adapt the tip on this page to re-allow the rel tag. I would just add the filter with a priority of 99999 rather than 10 to ensure it ran dead last.

Hope that helps!