This code snipts will disable html href, strong, bold and other tags in WordPress comment box. Many spamer are posting comment using these HTMl tags.So your blog post comments looking so ugly. like this : ” &strong;&&b;very; “. For the successfully disable HTML code and special html tags in the comments section in your WordPress blog or website simply open your active theme’s “functions.php”
file, then copy and paste the below code :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | // This will occur when the comment is posted function plc_comment_post( $incoming_comment ) { // convert everything in a comment to display literally $incoming_comment['comment_content'] = htmlspecialchars($incoming_comment['comment_content']); // the one exception is single quotes, which cannot be #039; because WordPress marks it as spam $incoming_comment['comment_content'] = str_replace ( "'", ''', $incoming_comment['comment_content'] ); return( $incoming_comment ); } // This will occur before a comment is displayed function plc_comment_display( $comment_to_display ) { // Put the single quotes back in $comment_to_display = str_replace( ''', "'", $comment_to_display ); return $comment_to_display; |
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