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1. wp-rory
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi all,

   I have already renamed the URL/Website field in the standard comments form to something more relevant to my site...however now when the comment author is shown in the recent comments widget, it is still as a hyperlink - either to 'http://' or to a nonsensical address whereby the field input is tacked on to the end of the http:// thus making something like 'http://eggs' etc.

   How can I remove the hyperlink from the comment author and just have the author displayed as plain text?

   Many thanks for any help,

   Rory. :)

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You might have to use wp_comments with a custom callback function.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments#Comments_Only_With_A_Custom_Comment_Display

3. wp-rory
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,

   Esmi many thanks for your reply. In the end I just removed the URL field altogether from my theme's comments.php and replaced this line in the same file (that I think I may have earlier removed) which allows for the comment author to be displayed as plaintext if no URL is supplied:

   <strong><?php comment_type('Review','Trackback','Pingback'); ?></strong> from <strong><?php if ('' != get_comment_author_url()) { ?><a href="<?php comment_author_url(); ?>"><?php comment_author() ?></a><?php } else { comment_author(); } ?></strong>

   Notice I also replaced the 'Comment' comment type with a more relevant name for my site - 'Review'.

   All the best,

   Rory. :)

4. manitou22
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm on version 2.8. What i did instead was to go to the comments.php inside the theme folder and find this line:

   <input type="text" name="url" id="url"
   value="<?php echo esc_attr($comment_author_url); ?>"
   size="22" tabindex="3" />
   <label for="url"><small>Website</small></label>

   and comment it out like this

   <!--<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url"
   value="<?php echo esc_attr($comment_author_url); ?>"
   size="22" tabindex="3" />
   <label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>-->

   It removes the field completely where a comment author can enter a URL which is great for future comment. To also remove the hyperlink overall from the author name (like I needed to because I had close to 100 comments already with author name hyperlinked) I found the following instructions (thank you techallica.com)

   1. Go to the wp-includes directory in your wordpress installation via ftp, locate a file called comment-template.php (in older versions of wordpress you would need to find comment-functions.php) , download the file, create a backup of the file to make sure you can upload a working copy in case you mess up.

   2. Open the php file with notepad (any text editor) or any code editing software you may have. Do search and locate a function called: get_comment_author_link()

   You will see the line:
   $return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow'>$author</a>";

   Replace that with:

   $return = $author;

   These two solutions did the trick for me.

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