The visual representation of a comment form (or lack of it) do not have any impact on the ability to receive comments, and spammers usually don’t care at all what is in your form. WordPress have a well publicized end point to which all comments are being sent (and while I don’t remember the detail … Read more
Here’s one suggestion using the comment_reply_link filter to change the reply links. Instead of using a regular expression to change it, I think it’s easier to just construct the links again. Here I use the same code as used in the get_comment_reply_link() core function, but I replace the $comment->comment_ID with $comment->comment_parent when the following condition … Read more
The comment_max_links_url filter We can count the number of internal links in the comment’s content and subtract that from the total number of links found there ($num_links), with the help of the following filter inside the check_comment() core function: /** * Filters the number of links found in a comment * * @since 3.0.0 * … Read more
Disclaimer: I wrote parts of the Akismet WordPress plugin, though not the parts in question here. Is Akismet failing to connect to the Akismet service, notifying me, and retrying later? Yes, this is exactly what happens. If Akismet doesn’t get a valid response from the servers, it reschedules the check for 20 minutes in the … Read more
Here are a few functions that make use of WP_Comment_Query to pull the user’s Comments, then loop through to find any replies, and trash them all. $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); $deleteReplies = true; $force_delete = false; deleteUserComments ( $current_user->ID, $deleteReplies, $force_delete ); If you want to test this without permanently trashing the items, you can reset … Read more
I wonder if you mean this kind of approach: add_filter( ‘init’, function() { $u = wp_get_current_user(); if( $u->exists() && in_array( ‘banned’, $u->roles, true ) ) add_filter( ‘comments_open’, ‘__return_false’ ); } ); where we check if the current user has the custom banned role. If that’s the case then we force all comments to be closed … Read more
Try to check on DB level. This SQL should give a list of all spam comments (which I assume skräpposter means): SELECT * FROM `wp_comments` WHERE `comment_approved` = ‘spam’; If the SQL gives 0 lines, the issue is with WordPress counting those comments, but in fact there are none. If the SQL gives a list, … Read more
The downside of using a forum system for comments, is that: the user probably has to register with the site to post a comment the user may not have single sign on ability through Vanilla you won’t be storing your comments in a system that can export them and import them into another commenting engine, … Read more
You can filter the output for the comment reply link on … wait for it! … ‘comment_reply_link’. Just do the same checks as the core function but return something else, in your case: nothing. <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /** * Plugin Name: T5 No Comment Log In Link * Plugin URI: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/q/52350/73 * … Read more
The disqus plugin synchronizes your WordPress comments with the disqus system — that’s it’s main purpose (own your own comments, etc). You can get around this by ditching the built in WordPress commenting system altogether, modifying your theme templates (probably just comments.php) to use the stand-alone disqus javascript. <script type=”text/javascript”> var disqus_shortname=””; // required: replace … Read more