I need to show the email adress in the comments

[Ponies]

So I'm working on a site where people post their testimonials in the comment section of a certain page. The people know that their email will get shown and have given us permission to show it to the public so they can be asked questions about their testimonial via email.

Problem is: how do I make it happen so that the email adress gets shown? What piece of code do I have to post where? Please advise. Thank you very much.

[Susan]

As you posted this a while ago, I hope you were able to get your issue resolved. If it is resolved, please mark this thread as “resolved”, so it can be closed.

If you are still having issues, report back here, and I will try to escalate.

[Ponies]

Well it is not resolved.
I wasn't able to get an answer either on the forums nor elsewhere on another site. Which is quite fascinating since the value is there in the database and I just need to get it shown on the website.
If you are able to provide a solution I'd be very grateful.

[Ponies]

So any help in this matter would be really appreciated.

[nciske]

This should get you started:
http://wpsmackdown.com/add-content-post-authors-comment/

I'd strongly recommend you use a plugin like CryptX to obfuscate the emails of your users (the JavaScript method works best). They may have given you permission to use them, but allowing them to be spammed mercilessly was unlikely part of that agreement 😉

Even better, never output the email and use a seperate form to allow email to go to your users without ever revealing their email (until they respond of course).

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[Ren Ventura]

I personally like the form idea mentioned by @nciske but it would require more work. Displaying users' emails can definitely lead to them getting spam, which is not cool for anyone.

If you need to show the email, you will want to use the antispambot() function in WordPress (see link below). This converts the email into HTML entities so that it's still rendered properly in the browser but email-harvesting scripts won't pick it up.

For retrieving the commenter's email, you can use get_comment() and output the escaped email using something like one of the WordPress comment filters or genesis_after_comment action.

In a nutshell, get_comment() will get you the data you need, antispambot() will escape the email to protect it from harvesting and then displaying it is your call.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/antispambot

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[vajrasar]

is this helpful - https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_author_email_link

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