WordPress Plugin: Comment Author URL Stripper

As promised, I’ve created a plugin which removes the URL from a comment author if it contains any of the words specified in the Options screen. Too many people have been leaving comments and putting in yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc. as their web site and I got tired of editing those comments all of the time. Now I simply put a few words into the Options screen and the plugin automatically does the work for me.

Comment Author URL Stripper

Could I have chosen a longer name for the plugin?

I had thought about including an option to prevent any previous comments with the specified words from displaying their URL, but decided against it. I used the following in phpMyAdmin to quickly do the work…

UPDATE `wp_comments` SET `comment_author_url`='' WHERE `comment_author_url` like '%PUTWORDHERE%'

* If you’re using a different table prefix, make sure to change wp_comments to reflect it.
* Replace PUTWORDHERE with hotmail as an example.


16 Responses to “WordPress Plugin: Comment Author URL Stripper”

  1. Cole Haan says:
    February 15, 2008 at 8:39pm

    Thanks for the plugin! Couldn’t find anywhere else

  2. Norman says:
    February 26, 2008 at 11:11am

    Thanks a lot for this information, that what i was looking for to do in my blog but, I didn’t know what was the term for it. Well now i know and thanks for the tips.

  3. hpguru says:
    February 27, 2008 at 12:19pm

    Thanks for the great plugin. I use this in my sidebar. :)

    Thanks very mach. Good work.

  4. hpguru says:
    February 27, 2008 at 12:21pm

    Most Commented is very good.

  5. Steve Madden says:
    April 26, 2008 at 2:32pm

    Hi,
    I will definitely be downloading and activating
    this plugin. Many Thanks!

  6. blogkosong says:
    May 13, 2008 at 2:35pm

    Thanks for the plugin, I’ll try it on my own :D

  7. trevor says:
    May 23, 2008 at 6:39pm

    We maintain quite a few blogs and this might help us seriously clean up a few recurring themes, lol.

    Thanks again.

  8. Chris says:
    June 30, 2008 at 2:46pm

    I have been looking for a plugin to do this. This is great because I get annoyed with those url’s also.

  9. gamer says:
    July 4, 2008 at 5:08pm

    excellent plugin to use on my wordpress blogs. I guess it works on WP 2.5 right?

    Thanks a lot

  10. Catherine says:
    July 7, 2008 at 9:56pm

    Nice little plugin…thanks!

  11. David says:
    July 9, 2008 at 1:08pm

    I love this plugin great job. I will use this on my blogs.

  12. Raja Singa says:
    July 29, 2008 at 12:56pm

    i just found this plugin. i wanna try it asap in my blog. thanks.

  13. elena says:
    August 3, 2008 at 7:10pm

    really it is a great plugin..i may use this to my blogs.thanks for the information.Nice site

  14. Amaterashu says:
    August 18, 2008 at 1:53am

    Hey, that’s a nice plugin..
    thanks for sharing

  15. TigerTom says:
    September 13, 2008 at 2:55pm

    Sounds good, but I’m surprised such a thing doesn’t already exist, like in Akismet?

    I dislike the amount of work you have to do to get Wordpress usable, and as for the constant security upgrades ….

  16. Jeffrey Pan says:
    September 22, 2008 at 8:55pm

    Was trying to Google for this tidbit, and I found this little gem of a WP hack… Thanks!

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