Discourage Links in Comments by Disabling HTML

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Disable HTML in commentsBy default, WordPress allows certain HTML tags in the comments that can be used to hide spam links. You can prevent this by disabling HTML in comments.

This means that any HTML tags used in a comment are seen as text but have no function. For example, if someone <strong>uses the tag, it will be shown in the comment but the text will not be bold. This also means that links will not be clickable.


To disable HTML comments, you'll need to add a snippet of text to your theme files. If you need help adding code to your site, check out our beginner's guide to inserting snippets from the web into WordPress .

ng the free WPCode plugin as it is the easiest method.

This code converts HTML code into HTML entities that are list of algeria cell phone number displayed in the comment and are not parsed by the browser.

10. Set a minimum and maximum comment length
We once had a problem with comment spam where a spammer was leaving hundreds of comments per hour with a single word: “Hello.”

Akismet and Sucuri were unable to block this because the comment looked natural. Antispam Bee slowed down the spammer but could not completely block the attack.

We were able to combat spam with the Comment Hacks plugin , which allows you to set a minimum and maximum length for comments.

Yoast Comment Hack Plugin Can Set Allowed Minimum and Maximum Comment Lengths
We simply enabled the Yoast Comment Hacks plugin and set the minimum length of comments, after which they would receive an error message if they tried to leave a one-word comment.