How To Disable HTML In WordPress Comments

The easiest way to disable HTML in wordpress comments. You can disable HTML in WordPress comments very easily by adding a small code snippet in your WordPress theme files.

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★ Code Used in the Video ►
// This will occur when the comment is posted
function plc_comment_post( $incoming_comment ) {

// convert everything in a comment to display literally
$incoming_comment['comment_content'] =
htmlspecialchars($incoming_comment['comment_content']);

// the one exception is single quotes, which cannot be #039; because WordPress marks it as spam
$incoming_comment['comment_content'] = str_replace( "'", ''',
$incoming_comment['comment_content'] );
return( $incoming_comment );
}

// This will occur before a comment is displayed
function plc_comment_display( $comment_to_display )
{
// Put the single quotes back in
$comment_to_display = str_replace( ''', "'", $comment_to_display );
return $comment_to_display;
}

0:12 - Introduction
0:34 - Navigating to the theme files
0:56 - Adding the code.

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