How to remove all comment authors links?

[saksham]

Can anyone help me remove all comment author links?

I used this code on a custom theme which no longer works on News Pro:

function author_link(){
global $comment;
$comment_ID = $comment->user_id;
$author = get_comment_author( $comment_ID );
$url = get_comment_author_url( $comment_ID );
if ( empty( $url ) || 'http://' == $url )
$return = $author;
else
$return = "$author";
return $return;
}
add_filter('get_comment_author_link', 'author_link');

http://www.ahemahem.com/

[nutsandbolts]

This will remove the URL field from your comment form, though it won't help if you need to remove author links in existing comments (let me know if that's the case):

//* Remove comment author link
add_filter( 'genesis_comment_form_args', 'url_filtered' );
add_filter( 'comment_form_default_fields', 'url_filtered' );
function url_filtered( $fields ) {
 
if ( isset( $fields['url'] ) )
unset( $fields['url'] );
 
if ( isset( $fields['fields']['url'] ) )
unset( $fields['fields']['url'] );
 
return $fields;
}

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[saksham]

I want to remove links from existing comments too.

[nutsandbolts]

If you don't have very many existing comments, it may be easiest to go through each one and edit to remove the URL. If that's too time consuming, you can get rid of them all via phpMyAdmin - just PLEASE make a backup before touching your database since it could break your entire site. If you aren't familiar with MySQL, I urge you to seek help with this.

Disclaimers aside, executing this command in MySQL will remove all author URLs in existing comments:

update wp_comments set comment_author_url = '';

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[saksham]

Hello, is there a way to make my previous code work if possible which removes the URLs dynamically i.e. it doesn't show them in my blog post but they can still be seen in admin panel. I'm not sure why the below code doesn't work with News Pro. It works with my other Genesis child theme.

function author_link(){
global $comment;
$comment_ID = $comment->user_id;
$author = get_comment_author( $comment_ID );
$url = get_comment_author_url( $comment_ID );
if ( empty( $url ) || ‘http://’ == $url )
$return = $author;
else
$return = “$author”;
return $return;
}
add_filter(‘get_comment_author_link’, ‘author_link’);

I am sorry if I'm asking for too much. 😉

[nutsandbolts]

There has to be a difference between the way comments are called in the HTML5 child themes versus the XHTML themes. I would start here - this is the best reference for Genesis 2.0 I've ever seen: http://docs.garyjones.co.uk/genesis/2.0.0/package-Genesis.Comments.html

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[saksham]

Well you are right. Anyways, I ran the SQL query and removed all author links instead.

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