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.
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30 August 2008, 12:56 amMatt Algren:
Wouldn’t it be easier to just edit your comments.php file to remove the comment_author_url reference and/or the Website box on your comment form?
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31 August 2008, 7:17 amAwaken:
why doesn’t work on my localhost?(EasyPHP+WordPress2.6)
31 August 2008, 10:59 amAwaken:
Sorry, I misunderstood its function.
It would be even better if it can filter href from the content of the comment
31 August 2008, 11:06 amsteve cooley:
Easier in the short term, yeah. I was looking for a solution that would work no matter what theme I use. That’s the great strength of Wordpress: being able to control the behavior of the system independent of the display code. In 6 or 12 months when I go to change my theme, I won’t have to waste any time a month after the change to figure out why there’s all this advertising on my site.
Again, this isn’t a function to compete with Spam Kamra 2, Bad Behavior, or Akismet. It does what those do not: block humans from putting unwanted advertisement links on my website. I actually do employ SK2 and Bad Behavior to help block the other annoying things that automated scripts and humans will try to subvert my site for. So, yay, it looks like it’s working today. People can still comment, and I can focus on creating content again, instead of maintaining my blog.
3 September 2008, 1:35 pmOnline Degrees:
Nice post
5 September 2008, 1:58 pm禁止评论作者名字上的超链接 | 不霁的彩虹:
[...] 安装完No Href in Comment Author之后，激活它，不需要别的操作，即使别人在你的博客上留言时填写了他的博客地址，他的名字上也不会出现链向他的博客链接。就像这样： [...]
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23 September 2008, 5:23 amFree Marketing eBooks:
This is good to use if you got alot of spammers commenting to your blog.
9 November 2008, 7:53 pm