wordpress plugin : No href in comment author
Folks, while I appreciate audience participation, I feel like the content I make is mine to use, and not my audiences’ to promote their site or link off to a spam link or anything else. I’ll admit that it’s a little sad that we are even in a state that we have to lock down comment authoring to such a ridiculous level. In a more perfect world, you wouldn’t have to worry about people using your blog for their marketing and more nefarious purposes… but you do, and so I made a plugin to disable HREF url linking in the comment author of your wordpress posts.
The mechanism is really basic. In fact, I tried really hard to make sure I wasn’t missing something, and maybe i still did miss where to configure my site to not display links in my comments’ authors name.
What is does is simply filter out comment_author_url data from comment posts and return nothing… it leaves the author name in-tact, but simply removes the actual link the comment author provided when they submitted the comment. It’s heavy handed in it’s simplicity, but I think it will really take a bite out of this problem I’ve been seeing.
Download: nohrefincommentauthor version 1.0
Installation is easy, just unzip the file and upload it to your /wp-content/plugins folder. Once that’s done, just log into your /wp-admin site and hit the “plugins” link, and then hit the “activate” link next to the “No href in comment authors” row in the plugins list.
