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.
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Actually… I’ve done the same thing many times. Good idea!
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?
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?
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.
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?
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?
i’m guessing it’s just a one-click solution, instead of editing and saving.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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?
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.
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…
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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 😛
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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
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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 🙂
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You know, while I agree with that policy, not all should be discarded as spam. If a valid point is made, then why not? Is that not the reason why comments are being allowed to be posted to a blog… whether it is to add value, argue or dispute the view against one’s own? Well I will be moving my very own personal blog into my very own not-so personal blog as I think it will offer great value as to the reason why I started a dating website despite the web being saturated with them. I feel it might set it apart from the crowd.
I think applying this plugin to all users is not fair. Soem users leave good comment and help you to promote your blog and makle it an interesting place – so why not allow them to leave links if they help YOU too?
Everybody should benefit – you and your readers. and it’s nice to be grateful.
Just think about it. 🙂
Tony
oh, you nofollow comments too, what a pity! You could have much bigger readership you you wouldn’t begrudge letting people get some benefits too. Think of you readers.
I am happy to provide backlinks to personal web sites and leave those up. Look more closely, I “nofollow” comments for 7 days so that SPAM comments do not get any benefit until I have a chance to remove them. After 7 days, the “nofollow” is removed.