By default, WordPress allows Html tags in the comments section such as . So many people just leave the comment for links which leads to Spam. We all hate spam comments which are just posted for links. Most spam comments are made by bots using HTML tags. By installing the Akismet plugin we can filter the spam comments but it does not stop the HTML tags in the comments section. We can prevent the spam by just disabling the HTML in WordPress comments. In this article, I’ll explain how to disable HTML in WordPress comments which helps to remove spam from your website easily.
You can easily disable HTML in Wordpress Comments by installing the Comment Link Remove plugin.
Comment Link Remove plugin is the all in one solution to fight with comment spam. This plugin removes author links and any other links from the user comments. Usually, spammer leaves a comment to get the do-follow or no-follow link from your website. Comment Link Remove plugin provides options to remove author links and any other hyperlinks from comments. You can choose to enable/disable the following options to discourage the comments spam on your website.
- Remove website field from comment form
- Remove hyperlink from comment author
- Disable turning URL’s into hyperlinks in comments
- Remove HTML link tags in comments
- Disable comments globally
- Hide existing comments
- Open comment links in the new tab
You can also delete all comments, delete pending comments and delete spam comments from using a plugin in the single shot.
How to disable HTML in WordPress comments?
You can easily disable HTML in WordPress comments by installing the Comment Link Remove plugin.
Login to your WordPress dashboard, install and activate the Comment Link Remove plugin. For more details on how to install the WordPress plugin, check this guide.
After installing the Comment Link Remove plugin, go to settings in your WordPress dashboard and click on QC CLR Settings.
Now enable below 2 options in Comment Link Remove settings.
Disable turning URL’s into hyper-links in comments
Remove HTML link tags in comments
This will disable active HTML link tags in comments. If anyone adds the HTML tags in comments, it will show but links will not function.
I hope this article helped you in disabling HTML in WordPress comments
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