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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.<\/p>\n\n<p>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?<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>\ud83d\ude80 <strong>Upgrade to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantumcloud.com\/products\/comment-tools\/\">Comment Tools Pro<\/a> now!<\/strong>\n  \ud83d\ude80 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantumcloud.com\/resources\/free-support\/\">Support, Bug Report, Feature Requests<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.quantumcloud.com\/comment-tools\/\">Pro version Live Demo<\/a> |<\/p>\n  \n  <p><strong>++ Upgrade to the Comment Tools pro<\/strong> version and <strong>Increase Interactivity<\/strong> with features like <strong>AI Auto Comment reply<\/strong>, adding a <strong>Voice record to the comments<\/strong> or <strong>Upload files, Images and Videos<\/strong>. Ability to <strong>Subscribe to newsletters<\/strong>, <strong>UpVote\/DownVote comments<\/strong> or send eMail notifications and reminders to your commenters grow relationship with your users. Supports comment username <strong>mention, quote, collapsing comments<\/strong> and tons of other options.<\/p>\n  \n  <p>\/\/-&gt; Try our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/chatbot\/\">FREE ChatBot for WordPress with AI - WPBot<\/a><\/strong>. It is an easy to use, Native, No coding required, AI ChatBot to provide Automated Live Chat Support. Use ChatBot to <strong>answer user questions<\/strong> and also <strong>collect information<\/strong> from the users using <strong>conversational forms<\/strong>. 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbot.pro\/\">ChatBot for WordPress<\/a> Demo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Remove WEBSITE Field from Comment Form<\/li>\n<li>Remove hyper-link from comment AUTHOR <\/li>\n<li>Disable turning URLs into hyper-links in comments <\/li>\n<li>Remove HTML Link Tags in comments<\/li>\n<li>Disable Comments Globally    <\/li>\n<li>Hide Existing Comments<\/li>\n<li>Open Comment Links in New Tab<\/li>\n<li>Delete pending comments with one click<\/li>\n<li>Delete all comments with one click<\/li>\n<li>Delete All Spam Comments in One Click<\/li>\n<li>Display post update date in blog post<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Everything you need to discourage spammers from leaving useless comments in your precious blog posts.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Empower Your Blog Comments with Comment Tools Pro<\/h4>\n\n<p>Comment Tools Pro adds an arsenal of practical tools for your WordPress Blog\u2019s comment section including an AI auto reply feature!<\/p>\n\n<p>Increase Interactivity with features like adding a <strong>Voice message record<\/strong> to the comments or <strong>Upload<\/strong> <strong>files, Images and Videos<\/strong>. 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Use ChatGPT AI to automatically reply to your user comments.<\/p>\n\n<p>Just add your OpenAI API key to the comment tools settings and it can reply to all <strong>Approved comments<\/strong> automatically from now on. You can set it to Auto reply to only the <strong>top comments<\/strong> or all the child comments. You can control the length, imagination and verboseness of the AI comments.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Increase Interactivity<\/h4>\n\n<p>An interactive community is a <strong>vibrant<\/strong> community.\nComment Tools Pro helps your site users become more interactive by adding unique features like <strong>Voice comments<\/strong>. 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Extract and upload the folder to your wp-content\/plugins folder.<\/li>\n<li>From the wp-admin panel goto plugins and activate \"Comment Link Remove\"<\/li>\n<li>Tune the plugin settings from (Settings --&gt; QC CLR Settings)<\/li>\n<li>You are done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Download the plugin zip file. Extract and upload \"comment-link-remove\" in your wp-content\/plugins folder.<\/li>\n<li>From the wp-admin panel goto plugins and activate \"Comment Link Remove\"<\/li>\n<li>Tune the plugin settings from (Settings --&gt; CLR Settings)<\/li>\n<li>You are done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"it%20is%20not%20working%20for%20me\"><h3>It is not working for me<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Comments tools plugin works with default WordPress comment feature with standard theme conventions. 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