Here’s a little one-trick pony WordPress plugin. Delink Comment Author adds a link that will remove the URL that the commenter left with their comment to the bottom of your comment notification e-mails and the comments list in your WP admin page.
My comment policy is to allow only personal web site URLs from commenters. From time to time someone will leave a pretty legit comment, but with a pretty non-personal URL. With this plugin I can just remove the URL instead of deleting the entire comment. Not sure how useful this will be to others, but it’s I’ve put it out there if you want to use it. 
The download and more information are available on my WordPress Plugins page.
If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
Popularity: 24% [?]
Mark Jaquith adds this Comment:
Actually… I’ve done the same thing many times. Good idea!
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:44 pm
n-blue adds this Comment:
After read twice I still not clear what this plugin will do.
Please correct me if I am wrong. If commentor use google.com as his/her website the plugin will help to remove google.com from website field?
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Ramkarthik adds this Comment:
n-blue, what I guess is that, if the commentator leaves a URL at the end of the comment we can remove it instead of removing the whole comment. Am I right?
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Nice from Thailand adds this Comment:
I guess it doesn’t remove url in the comment field,
it removes url that attaches with the comment author’s name, like n-blue (P’ n/e) said.
I’m a bit confused with this description too
Delink Comment Author adds a link (that will remove the URL that the commenter left with their comment) to the bottom of (your comment notification e-mails and the comments list in your WP admin page).
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but the readme page makes it clear.
I guess if someone put spam links in comment content (like as if it’s a signature), you need to remove it manually.
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Niranjan Thilak adds this Comment:
u can just remove the website address from the edit comments page…cant we?
or does this plugin filter some addresses..lets say ..using wildcards?
September 4th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Jonathan Dingman adds this Comment:
Alex,
Niranjan is dead on with this one, I think.
Why not just go in and remove the URL? I’ve done that, actually I did it today. Someone left one comment with a good URL, then started leaving other comments with spammy URLs, so I went through and removed them and replaced them with the original good URL.
What’s the difference between just going in and editing the URL and using this plugin?
September 4th, 2007 at 4:34 am
sam adds this Comment:
i’m guessing it’s just a one-click solution, instead of editing and saving.
September 4th, 2007 at 5:52 am
Alex adds this Comment:
1. Go to the comment you want to edit
2. Click edit
3. Tab or mouse into the web site field
4. Clear the field
5. Save
vs.
1. Click a link
If you see these as equivalent, then there is no reason to use this plugin. For me the second option is much nicer - especially on a mobile device.
September 4th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Jonathan Dingman adds this Comment:
Alex,
A valid point.
My view on Wordpress is that I like to install as few plugins as possible and since I don’t administrate my blog or even write on my blog via mobile, this wouldn’t really be helpful for me.
Thanks for clarifying and providing a tool for anyone out there that *does* want this.
September 4th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Matt Wiebe adds this Comment:
Great little plugin! My brother just ditched his blog, and unfortunately deleted it instead of letting it sit dormant.
Of course, a spammer grabbed it, so I needed to delete all of his links on my blog. This saved a LOT of time for me.
September 4th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Sarah adds this Comment:
I don’t see the point of this plugin. You can easily edit any comment that’s added to a WP blog, and not have to delete the comment in the process.
September 4th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Jeff adds this Comment:
Every so often I catch myself thinking that the people online are generally smarter than the idiots you see around town. I’d like to thank the commenters on this post for reminding me that isn’t true.
September 4th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Aaron adds this Comment:
I use followable links, so I make sure only personal/semi-personal links are used. This will come in handy to make everything a little faster and smoother.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Chad adds this Comment:
Will keep this one handy once comments start showing up … if ever …
By the way, it looks like there might be an issue on this site when multiple comment forms are open. When I hit tab, it jumps down to the second form, rather than the next field in the current form … not a huge issue, but thought I’d let you know …
September 4th, 2007 at 11:08 am
kalen adds this Comment:
sounds like a good idea to me. i can see where it’s easier than manually removing links. i think it could work well on sites that act more as a “diary” too - that maybe think linking to others makes it impersonal or something?
September 4th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Ozh adds this Comment:
fun idea
Not sure about the implementation though, isn’t this possible with some regexp magic instead of manually do stuff? Like:
Some text (the comment itself)
Short text (the name)
http://www.somesite.com/
Haven’t had comments with sigs so far, but I’ll try to find a pattern to make things automatic if I ever get some.
September 4th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
DG adds this Comment:
I donn’t understand, why so much noise? He has made something and deatiled it. If you like go ahead, download and so your appreciation. Else just to leave it.
DG…
September 4th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
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September 5th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Ozh adds this Comment:
Bug report: in page edit-comments.php, your jquery().each will bug if a comment
contains
a list
Slight improvement with the selection is:
jQuery(’#the-comment-list li[@id^=comment]’).each(function() {
[yada]
});
Hope stuff keeps rather formatted after I submit
September 7th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
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September 9th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Ace adds this Comment:
well , i think that this is a really nice mod , ive had the same problems like you dude , and its really hard to delete so many posts . So i think this would be really interesting to add . Really thanks for it.
Regards,
Cheers m8
Ace.
September 19th, 2007 at 1:33 am
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October 1st, 2007 at 5:52 am
Alicia adds this Comment:
Pretty cool plugin. I get a lot of spam but sometimes the comments are actually hand-written, so I want to leave them without deleting the whole thing. This works perfectly
April 24th, 2008 at 9:04 pm