Jul 20, 2015
Comments are very important in a blog. By default, it is disabled in WordPress. But one of the first things that are done is enabling comments along with a comment spam fighting plugin like Akismet...
When you have a website setup in WordPress, there are a lot of ways that people can spam your website. While Akismet is a good spam fighting plugin, you might want to add an additional step to stop users and commentors being able to add links via the comments region.
To prevent this, we need to remove HTML linking feature, automatic parsing of link texts as well as the input links in the comment section. Hereβs how you can do it.
