How to disable hyperlinks in author bio WordPress?

  • Resolved Prabhakar

    (@trainingsadda)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I have a website, where users can register and submit articles.

    But they are creating spammy links in “WordPress-Biographical Info”.

    I want to disable or remove the hyperlinks in that section.

    Can you help me with this issue?

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  • tugbucket

    (@tugbucket)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    add_filter('pre_user_description','wpse_whitelist_tags_in_bio');
function wpse_whitelist_tags_in_bio($description){
    $bio_allowed_tags = array(
                         'strong'=>array(),
                         'em'=>array(),
						 'b'=>array(),
						 'i'=>array(),
                        );
    $description = wp_kses($description,$bio_allowed_tags);
    return $description;
}

    this will allow only the HTML tags you want, notice I’m allowing <b> <i> and but nothing else. You’ll have to re-save all user profiles to retroactively remove all the other tags.

    Thread Starter Prabhakar

    (@trainingsadda)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for your code.

    Let me try this one also.

    I tried the below code it worked well in few themes.

    add_filter( ‘get_the_author_description’, ‘remove_html_link’ );
    function remove_html_link($link) {
    $end = preg_replace(‘#<a.*?>#i’, ”, $link);
    return $end;
    }

    But on my website [https://www.whatiswhatis.com/], there are 2 functions that are calling for the author description.

    Anyway, I hired the WordPress developer, he solved it.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Prabhakar.
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