Comment Link Remove and Other Comment Tools vs La Sentinelle antispam

All in one solution to fight blog comment spammers and improve comment quality. Tired of deleting useless spammy comments from your WordPress blog posts? Comment Link Remove WordPress plugin removes author link and any other links from the user comments among other features. If you run a blog or WordPress website with comments enabled, there is no getting away from comment spammers. Captchas help with bot spamming. But how do you prevent a human who is willing to put in a moment to pass the captcha and write a spam comment just to push a link in your website? 🚀 Upgrade to Comment Tools Pro now! 🚀 Support, Bug Report, Feature Requests | Pro version Live Demo | ++ Upgrade to the Comment Tools pro version and Increase Interactivity with features like AI Auto Comment reply, adding a Voice record to the comments or Upload files, Images and Videos. Ability to Subscribe to newsletters, UpVote/DownVote comments or send eMail notifications and reminders to your commenters grow relationship with your users. Supports comment username mention, quote, collapsing comments and tons of other options. //-> Try our FREE ChatBot for WordPress with AI – WPBot. It is an easy to use, Native, No coding required, AI ChatBot to provide Automated Live Chat Support. Use ChatBot to answer user questions and also collect information from the users using conversational forms. It can be also be powered by DialogFlow, Tavily or OpenAI ChatGPT or simply use the built-in features to provide Live support and collect data. ++ Check out the ChatBot for WordPress Demo. Usually the comment spammers’ main goal is to get a do-follow or no-follow link from your website. Comment Link Remove WordPress plugin empowers you with the options to remove author website hyperlink and cleaning up any links from the comment itself. The URLs will still be visible but they just won’t be hyperlinked. This will greatly discourage comment spammers. You can individually choose to turn on/off the following options to discourage and comment spams or take actions against spammy comments: Remove WEBSITE Field from Comment Form Remove hyper-link from comment AUTHOR Disable turning URLs into hyper-links in comments Remove HTML Link Tags in comments Disable Comments Globally Hide Existing Comments Open Comment Links in New Tab Delete pending comments with one click Delete all comments with one click Delete All Spam Comments in One Click Display post update date in blog post Everything you need to discourage spammers from leaving useless comments in your precious blog posts. Empower Your Blog Comments with Comment Tools Pro Comment Tools Pro adds an arsenal of practical tools for your WordPress Blog’s comment section including an AI auto reply feature! Increase Interactivity with features like adding a Voice message record to the comments or Upload files, Images and Videos. Ability to Subscribe to newsletters, UpVote/DownVote comments or send eMail notifications and reminders to your commenters to grow relationship with your users. Increase quality of the comments by reducing spammy and low quality comments. Export commentator eMail addresses as CSV or Integrate with Zapier and MailChimp. Analyze the sentiment of a Comment – discern and moderate commentator’s emotion automatically. AI Auto Comment Reply Never have a comment go unanswered! Use ChatGPT AI to automatically reply to your user comments. Just add your OpenAI API key to the comment tools settings and it can reply to all Approved comments automatically from now on. You can set it to Auto reply to only the top comments or all the child comments. You can control the length, imagination and verboseness of the AI comments. Increase Interactivity An interactive community is a vibrant community. Comment Tools Pro helps your site users become more interactive by adding unique features like Voice comments. Users can record and attach a voice messages with each of their comments. Allow users to Upload and attach files, Images and Videos (define allowed file types). UpVote/DownVote comments is also supported. Site admins can send eMail notifications and reminders to the commenters to create a more intimate relationship with the website users. Collect eMails and grow eMail List for Your Newsletters! Get more out of your blog users. They love your blog and leave comments on your articles. Why not give them the option to subscribe to your newsletter while they are leaving a comment? You can do just that with Comment tools pro. Subscribed users’ name and emails can be exported as CSV or you can directly integrate with a MailChimp List! You can also use Zapier to integrate with almost any major mailing List platform! Create new Zap on your Zapier Account and connect with this plugin. Improve and Moderate Comments Automatically Enable Comment Sentiment setting to Show the commentator’s Emotion with icon. Filter comments by Emotion (positive, negative or neutral) in the Front and Backend! Auto moderate comments for profanity by setting a threshold for negative comments! Commentator will be shown warning message you define and asked to rephrase her comments to adhere to the community rules! ++ View Demo of Comment Tools Pro Version All the Pro Version Features for WordPress Comment Tools Pro Comment Tools ⭐ Remove WEBSITE Field from Comment Form ⭐ Remove hyper-link from comment AUTHOR Bio ⭐ Disable turning URLs into hyper-links in comments ⭐ Remove HTML Link Tags in comments ⭐ Disable Comments Globally ⭐ Hide Existing Comments ⭐ Open Comment Links in New Tab ⭐ Delete or Mark Comments as Spam from the front end (for users with Privilege) AI Auto Reply to User Comments ⭐ Supports Auto Comment Reply Using OpenAI GPT 3, 4 and ChatGPT ⭐ Auto Reply only for Approved Comments ⭐ Reply only to the Top Comment or all the Child Comments also ⭐ Options to Select Max Tokens, Temperature, Presence Penalty, and Frequency Penalty Voice Recording Message with Comments ⭐ Enable option to Record a Voice Message with each comment ⭐ View and listen Voice records in the WordPress dashboard ⭐ Change all languages Discourage Spam Comments ⭐ Remove WEBSITE Field from Comment Form ⭐ Remove hyperlink from comment AUTHOR ⭐ Disable turning URLs into hyperlinks in comments ⭐ Remove HTML Link Tags in comments ⭐ Open Links in Comment on New Tab ⭐ Minimum Time Between Comments ( Set Time Interval Required Between Comments by same user to Avoid Spamming ) ⭐ Custom Message for too quick comments Prevent Bot and Spam Comments Comment Tools Pro provides an advanced feature to completely prevent commenting by Spam Bots by adding a stylesheet or image to the source code. When a Human loads your blog in a browser that stylesheet or image a cookie is added. If that user then leaves a comment the cookie is checked. If the cookie does not exist the comment is marked as spam by Bots. Auto Moderate Comments with keywords or keyphrases. Define a list of keywords. When any new comment include any of these keywords, it will be automatically marked as Spam or Deleted Get eMail Subscriptions from Comments ⭐ eMail subscription opt-in checkbox in comment field ⭐ Edit subscribe Language ⭐ List of subscribed users in the plugin back end ⭐ Export subscribed user list as CSV file ⭐ Integrate with your MailChimp account and add emails directly to your mailing list ⭐ Integrate with your Zapier account and create new zap for all major mailing platforms like aweber, drip, getresponse, contact contact etc. and dozens more! Image, Video, Document Attachment with Comments Comment Tools Pro allows your visitors to attach images, videos, audios, documents and other files with their comments. They will also be able to automatically embed links from Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and other services in the comment text. ⭐ Limit the maximum file upload size. ⭐ Make an attachment required. ⭐ Specify whether the attachment will be embedded or displayed as a link. ⭐ Enable/Disable autoembed links (like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in the comment text. ⭐ Select an attachment image size from thumbnails available in your WordPressl. ⭐ Link a thumbnail to a full-size image with lightbox plugins support ⭐ Open a full-size image in a new tab or link thumbnail to the attachment page. ⭐ Enable/Disable multiple upload. ⭐ Combine images to gallery. ⭐ Select an attachment image size for the images gallery. ⭐ Restrict attachment file types. ⭐ Decide who will be able to upload attachments: all users or only logged users. ⭐ Manually moderate comments with attachments. You can also: ⭐ Add, replace or delete an attachment from a comment on Edit Comment screen. ⭐ Attach an unlimited number of attachments to the comment in the admin panel. ⭐ Delete an attachment on Comments screen. Discourage Low Quality Comments ⭐ Define Minimum Length of Comments ( Avoid Low Value Comments ) ⭐ Alert Message for Minimum Comments Length ⭐ Maximum Length of Comments – (Prevent lengthy copy pastes) ⭐ Define Alert Message for Maximum Comments Length Sentiment Analysis to Prevent Spams and Improve Quality ⭐ Sentiment and Emotion analysis for English Language ⭐ Show Comment Sentiment Icons by each comment ⭐ Filter comments by Sentiment (positive, negative or neutral) ⭐ Automatically prevent comments with Profanity or too many negative words based on a score you define ⭐ User Upvote/Downvote a comment ⭐ Comment emotion and score display in the backend for admin Improve Interactivity with Your Followers ⭐ Tag a user (mention @name) to send notification. Supports drop down auto populate to choose username ⭐ Quote another Comment ⭐ Notify a user when their comment is approved by email ⭐ Collapse Comment Replies and show Comment Number ⭐ Redirect First Time Commenters to a Page for a special offer or thank you message ⭐ Send a private email to an individual commenter from Dashboard ⭐ A button in the WP toolbar to email all the commenters on a post ⭐ Option to Notify All Commenters of a Post when there is a New Comment on that post ⭐ Notify All Users of the site when there is a New Comment on Any Post Bulk Manage Your Comments ⭐ Disable Comments Globally ⭐ Hide Existing Comments ⭐ Show All Comments on a single page with a convenient shortcode. ⭐ Delete all pending comments with one click. ⭐ Delete All Spam Comments in One Click. Other Features ⭐ Sidebar Widget to Display the Top Commenters ⭐ Add Vertical scroll in recent comments widget ⭐ Pin a Comment to Show the Comment at the Top Position ⭐ Mark a Comment as Private (only admin and commenter will see) ⭐ Enable Read More option in Comments (show more comments at once) ⭐ Set rel UGC, “follow” , “nofollow” to Comment Links ⭐ Display post update date in blog post. Some more interesting plugins to help your website: Simple Link Directory plugin | Simple Business Directory plugin with maps | ChatBot for WordPress WPBot | Infographic Maker plugin – iList | Slider Hero WordPress Slider Plugin Woocommerce related plugins WooCommerce One Page Store Express Shop | Woocommerce Shop Assistant | Woo Tabbed Category Product Listing | ChatBot for WooCommerce WoowBot | Bargain Bot to Increase Sales More Useful Plugins: WordPress Portfolio plugin | Easy Charts and Graphs plugin iChart | KnowledgeBase Helpdesk Plugin with ChatBot Use Download the plugin zip file. Extract and upload the folder to your wp-content/plugins folder. From the wp-admin panel goto plugins and activate “Comment Link Remove” Tune the plugin settings from (Settings –> QC CLR Settings) You are done.

Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way. It has antispam filters for comment forms and registration forms and can be extended to support plugins. The default settings should catch most spambots, and there is a settingspage to set it up according to your wishes. Current features include: 3 antispam features; Honeypot, Nonce, Form Timeout. These 3 spamfilters depend on JavaScript on the frontend. 1 antispam feature; Stop Forum Spam. Settingspage to set things up according to your wishes. Transparent to the visitor, no nagging with Captcha’s or other annoying things. By default no use of third-party services and no tracking of visitors. Lightweight and simple code. Logging for WordPress Comments and which spamfilter marked it as spam. Logging for Custom forms and which spamfilter marked it as spam. Statistics for every form how many spam submissions were blocked. WordPress forms that are protected: WordPress Comments form. WordPress Login form. WordPress Register form. WordPress Lost Password form. Form Plugins that are protected: Caldera Forms. Clean Login (Login form). Contact Form 7. Easy Digital Downloads (Login form, Register form). Everest Forms. Formidable Form Builder. Forminator. Newsletter Optin Box plugin (noptin) (standalone forms). Ultimate Member (Login form, Register form and Lost Password form). WooCommerce (Login form, Lost Password form). WPForms Lite. WP Job Manager plugin (submit job form when registering is enabled). Support If you have a problem or a feature request, please post it on the plugin’s support forum on wordpress.org. I will do my best to respond as soon as possible. If you send me an email, I will not reply. Please use the support forum. Translations Translations can be added very easily through GlotPress. You can start translating strings there for your locale. They need to be validated though, so if there’s no validator yet, and you want to apply for being validator (PTE), please post it on the support forum. I will make a request on make/polyglots to have you added as validator for this plugin/locale. How to choose an antispam plugin When you look through the WordPress Plugin Repository you will see more than a hundred antispam plugins. Which one is the best one? Short answer, there is no “best one”. No spamfilter and no method for spamfiltering is perfect. Slightly longer answer, you could try about twenty and choose the one that fits your needs best. But there is also a really long answer. There are different methods that can be used against spam, and every method has its drawbacks. In my opinion, having a low number of false positives is more important than perfectly marking all spam, you don’t want to miss out on important people or information. Nagging the user in some way has a similar effect, the user might not even want to bother with that and just walk away. Third party services: Services like Akismet, OOPSpam, Stop Forum Spam and also reCAPTCHA offer third party services to check for spam. This can be very effective, but you are giving user submitted data away to these third parties and are also giving your users up for tracking them. Captcha’s, reCAPTCHA and Quizz Questions: You are annoying your users and probably sending some of them away. This especially counts for reCAPTCHA for visitors who have third party cookies disabled. Blacklists: Often running behind the facts. That goes for the way of getting users off that list, and also in getting users on that list. Referer check: check if the Referer header is set correctly. You can never trust it is set correctly. Modern browsers are limiting the use of Referers, though for now that is mostly for third-party domains. JavaScript methods: Spammers often (always?) don’t use JavaScript, they just post the form with spammy data. Drawback for this method is that statistics say that about 1 percent of users has JavaScript disabled. Also, some websites have broken JavaScript, which might make the spamfilter break as well. Activation email for registering users. Users only get activated after clicking a link in an activation email. You still have all the non-activated users in your site however. You could have a bright idea about combining several methods, but then you get the drawbacks of all the methods you use. Another complication of choosing a good plugin is that most antispam plugins don’t tell you what methods they use. The documentation doesn’t tell you, and looking at the source code just leaves you confused at the chaos that it often is. My main motivation for writing this plugin is to offer a plugin that does spamfiltering with JavaScript methods in a simple and effective way. The claimed 1 percent of users that has JavaScript disabled will also be tech-savy enough to enable it again for your website. Compatibility This plugin is compatible with ClassicPress. Contributions This plugin is also available in Codeberg.