Disable comment author links in WordPress
Posted in Wordpress on August 26, 2011 
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Comments(2) I just wrote a new plugin to disable commenter names from linking to the website URLs they may provide when commenting.
Some themes allow commenters to provide a home page URL along with their comment. The comment author’s name then becomes a link to that website wherever it appears on your site. This plugin removes those links.
Download disable-comment-author-links.zip
Installation instructions
- Upload the `disable-comment-author-links` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Your simple url-disabler seems to work perfectly on my site. I had previously done a small hack to comment-template.php, but subsequent wordpress updates wiped out my hack. Hopefully your plugin will keep working :)
DeviceGuru:
It sure will! What you have described is the primary advantage of a plugin–modify the functionality of the WP core without losing that change when the core is updated.