by Florian Effenberger 1 (0 reviews)

More privacy for comments

Name: More privacy for comments
Author: Florian Effenberger

Hides e-mail and URL fields for new blog comments and omits saving of commenter IP address for more privacy

More privacy for comments ranks #69,055 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #2,219 of 2,958 in the Discussion & Community category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated May 31, 2018. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.9 (Current: 7.1.4)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 8 years ago Last Update on 31 May, 2018

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: May 31, 2018
Requires WP: 4.9+
Tested Up To: 4.9
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: Florian Effenberger

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about More privacy for comments

It hides the input fields for e-mail and URL in new blog comments and omits storing the IP addresses of commenter in the WordPress database. It also disables the notice that e-mail addresses are not being made public, as no e-mail addresses will be collected. Please double-check your blog's settings wrt. registered users to see this is true actually!

It does not change existing comments and remove data from there, so you have to manually edit the SQL database for that. It neither provides further privacy mechanisms. For a proper privacy approach for your blog, you might need to take additional steps, like reconfiguring your web server and backup system. There are further WordPress plugins available for privacy improvements. Please keep in mind that this plugins is only a small piece to help with a very specific topic.

No, you use it at your own risk, I give no guarantees whatsoever. I have tested it with the Twenty Sixteen theme, and while in theory it should work with several themes and in conjunction with other plugins, it's your responsibility to test it in your concrete setup.

Very much indeed so. As you see from the code, this plugin is very, very basic. Any feature additions, bug fixes and enhancements are highly welcome!

Yes, indeed! You can manually override the text of the name form field to pre-define an anonymous value, and explain to your users that anonymous or nicknames are preferred. See https://blog.effenberger.org/more-privacy-for-comments/ for a sample code snippet.