I wanted to remove links for parent categories too! Didn’t like any of the options above, so came up with this. Adapt and use this in your jquery file:
//remove link for parent categories
$('ul.children').parent(['li']).find('a:first').removeAttr('href');
I had a similar problem and ended up here. I didn’t want to edit the wp-comments-post.php because it would change the redirect behavior everywhere comments were used.
This inspired me to work with a hidden redirect_to field in a new index-comments.php file because I wanted this redirect only for a user commenting on the home page. I then called it like this in my index.php
<?php comments_template("/index-comments.php"); of course after setting the <?php $withcomments = 1 ?> way before the loop.
Thanks for answering yourself. It surely helped me.
