=== Comment Link Remove and Other Comment Tools ===
Contributors: quantumcloud
Donate link: https://www.quantumcloud.com
Tags: Comments, Disable Comment Link, anti spam, Disable Comments, Link Remover
Requires at least: 4.6
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.6
Stable tag: 2.7.4
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.quantumcloud.com

Remove Comment Author Link & Links from Comments, Unlink, Disable Comments, Delete All Pending Comments. AI Auto Comment Reply, Voice, Attachments

== Description ==
All in one solution to <strong>fight blog comment spammers </strong>and <strong>improve comment quality</strong>. 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?

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> <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.

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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 <strong>Voice message record</strong> to the comments or <strong>Upload</strong> <strong>files, Images and Videos</strong>. Ability to <strong>Subscribe</strong> to newsletters, <strong>UpVote</strong>/<strong>DownVote </strong>comments or send <strong>eMail</strong> notifications and reminders to your commenters to grow relationship with your users.

Increase quality of the comments by <strong>reducing spammy</strong> and <strong>low</strong> <strong>quality</strong> comments. <strong>Export </strong>commentator <strong>eMail</strong> addresses as <strong>CSV </strong>or <strong>Integrate </strong>with <strong>Zapier </strong>and <strong>MailChimp.</strong> Analyze the <strong>sentiment </strong>of a Comment - discern and <strong>moderate</strong> commentator's emotion <strong>automatically</strong>.

= AI Auto Comment Reply =

<strong>Never have a comment go unanswered</strong>! 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 <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.

= Increase Interactivity =

An interactive community is a <strong>vibrant</strong> community.
Comment Tools Pro helps your site users become more interactive by adding unique features like <strong>Voice comments</strong>. Users can <strong>record</strong> and attach a <strong>voice messages</strong> with each of their comments.

Allow users to <strong>Upload</strong> and attach <strong>files, Images and Videos </strong>(define allowed file types). <strong>UpVote</strong>/<strong>DownVote </strong>comments is also supported.

Site admins can send <strong>eMail</strong> 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 <strong>exported as CSV</strong> or you can directly integrate with a <strong>MailChimp List</strong>! You can also use <strong>Zapier</strong> to integrate with almost any major mailing List platform! <strong>Create new Zap</strong> 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](http://dev.quantumcloud.com/comment-tools/)

= All the Pro Version Features for WordPress Comment Tools Pro =

<strong>Comment Tools</strong>

⭐ 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
⭐ <strong>Delete</strong> or Mark Comments as Spam from the <strong>front end</strong> (for users with Privilege)

<strong>AI Auto Reply to User Comments</strong>
⭐ Supports Auto Comment Reply Using OpenAI GPT 3, 4 and <strong>ChatGPT</strong>
⭐ Auto Reply only for <strong>Approved Comments</strong>
⭐ Reply only to the <strong>Top Comment</strong> or all the Child Comments also
⭐ Options to Select <strong>Max Tokens</strong>, Temperature, Presence Penalty, and Frequency Penalty

<strong>Voice Recording Message with Comments</strong>
⭐ Enable option to <strong>Record </strong>a<strong> Voice Message </strong>with each comment
⭐ View and listen <strong>Voice records</strong> in the WordPress dashboard
⭐ <strong>Change </strong>all <strong>languages</strong>


<strong>Discourage Spam Comments</strong>

⭐ <strong>Remove WEBSITE Field</strong> from Comment Form
⭐ Remove <strong>hyperlink from comment AUTHOR</strong>
⭐ Disable <strong>turning URLs</strong> into hyperlinks in comments
⭐ Remove <strong>HTML Link Tags</strong> in comments
⭐ Open <strong>Links </strong>in Comment on<strong> New Tab</strong>
⭐ <strong>Minimum Time</strong> Between Comments ( Set Time Interval Required Between Comments by same user to Avoid Spamming )
⭐ Custom Message for too quick comments

<strong>Prevent Bot and Spam Comments</strong>
Comment Tools Pro provides an advanced feature to completely prevent commenting by Spam Bots by adding a stylesheet or <strong>image</strong> 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 <strong>spam</strong> by Bots.

<strong>Auto Moderate</strong> Comments with <strong>keywords</strong> or keyphrases. Define a list of keywords. When any new comment <strong>include</strong> any of these <strong>keywords</strong>, it will be <strong>automatically</strong> marked as Spam or <strong>Deleted</strong>

<strong>Get eMail Subscriptions from Comments</strong>

⭐ <strong>eMail subscription opt-in </strong>checkbox in comment field
⭐ Edit subscribe <strong>Language</strong>
⭐ List of subscribed users in the plugin back end
⭐ <strong>Export</strong> subscribed user list as <strong>CSV</strong> file
⭐ <strong>Integrate </strong>with your<strong> MailChimp </strong>account and add emails directly to your <strong>mailing list</strong>
⭐ <strong>Integrate </strong>with your<strong> Zapier </strong>account and create new zap for all major mailing platforms like aweber, drip, getresponse, contact contact etc. and dozens more!

<strong>Image, Video, Document Attachment with Comments</strong>
Comment Tools Pro allows your visitors to attach <strong>images</strong>, <strong>videos</strong>, audios, documents and other files with their comments. They will also be able to automatically embed links from <strong>Youtube</strong>, <strong>Facebook</strong>, 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.


<strong>Discourage Low Quality Comments</strong>

⭐ Define <strong>Minimum Length</strong> of Comments ( Avoid Low Value Comments )
⭐ Alert Message for Minimum Comments Length
⭐ <strong>Maximum Length</strong> of Comments - (Prevent lengthy copy pastes)
⭐ Define Alert Message for Maximum Comments Length

<strong>Sentiment Analysis to Prevent Spams and Improve Quality</strong>

⭐ <strong>Sentiment</strong> and Emotion analysis for English Language
⭐ Show Comment <strong>Sentiment Icons</strong> by each comment
⭐ <strong>Filter</strong> comments by <strong>Sentiment</strong> (positive, negative or neutral)
⭐ Automatically <strong>prevent</strong> comments with <strong>Profanity</strong> or too many negative words based on a score you define
⭐ User <strong>Upvote</strong>/<strong>Downvote</strong> a comment
⭐ Comment emotion and score display in the backend for admin

<strong>Improve Interactivity with Your Followers</strong>

⭐ <strong>Tag a user (mention @name)</strong> to send notification. Supports drop down auto populate to choose username
⭐ <strong>Quote</strong> another Comment
⭐ Notify a user when their <strong>comment is approved by email</strong>
⭐ Collapse Comment Replies and show Comment Number
⭐ <strong>Redirect First Time Commenters to a Page</strong> for a special offer or thank you message
⭐ Send a private <strong>email to an individual commenter from Dashboard
</strong>
⭐ A button in the WP toolbar to<strong> email all the commenters</strong> on a post
⭐ Option to <strong>Notify All Commenters</strong> of a Post when there is a <strong>New Comment </strong>on that post<strong>
</strong>
⭐ <strong>Notify All Users</strong> of the site when there is a New Comment on Any Post

<strong>Bulk Manage Your Comments</strong>

⭐ Disable Comments Globally
⭐ Hide Existing Comments
⭐ <strong>Show All Comments</strong> on a single page with a convenient shortcode.
⭐ <strong>Delete all pending</strong> comments with one click.
⭐ Delete All Spam Comments in <strong>One Click.</strong>

<strong>Other Features</strong>

⭐ Sidebar Widget to Display the <strong>Top Commenters</strong>
⭐ Add <strong>Vertical scroll </strong>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<strong> Read More option in Comments</strong> (show more comments at once)
⭐ Set rel UGC, “follow” , “nofollow” to Comment Links
⭐ Display post update date in blog post.

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== Installation ==

1. Download the plugin zip file. Extract and upload "comment-link-remove" in your wp-content/plugins folder.
2. From the wp-admin panel goto plugins and activate "Comment Link Remove"
3. Tune the plugin settings from (Settings --> CLR Settings)
5. You are done.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= It is not working for me =
Comments tools plugin works with default WordPress comment feature with standard theme conventions. If you are using 3rd party tools for your blog comments or if your theme is not coded properly, it will not work.

= How can I upgrade from free version of Comment tools to Pro version? =
1. Download the latest pro version of the plugin from website
2. Log in to your WordPress admin area and go to the Plugins management page.
3. Deactivate and Delete the old version of the plugin (don’t worry – your data is safe)
4. Upload and Activate the latest pro version of the plugin
5. You are done.

[Pro version Live Demo](https://dev.quantumcloud.com/comment-tools/) | <strong>[Upgrade to Pro!](https://www.quantumcloud.com/products/comment-tools/)</strong>



== Use ==

1. Download the plugin zip file. Extract and upload the folder to your wp-content/plugins folder.
2. From the wp-admin panel goto plugins and activate "Comment Link Remove"
3. Tune the plugin settings from (Settings --> QC CLR Settings)
5. You are done.

== Screenshots ==

1. Settings Page with new option to Delete All Comments OR Delete All Pending Comments Delete OR Delete All Spam Comments in One Click
2. Front end result


== Changelog ==

= 2.7.4 =
# Nav menu updated

= 2.7.3 =
# support page php variable and js issue fixed
# email subscription page php warning issue fixed

= 2.7.2 =
# Fixed a PHP issue

= 2.7.1 =
# End Sale

= 2.7.0 =
# Sale

= 2.6.9 =
# End Black Friday sale

= 2.6.8 =
# Black Friday Sale

= 2.6.7 =
# End Sale

= 2.6.6 =
# Halloween Sale

= 2.6.4 =
# End Sale

= 2.6.3 =
# 4th of July Sale

= 2.6.2 =
# Fixed a Plugin Redirect issue

= 2.6.1 =
# Fixed an issue with form submission

= 2.6.0 =
# UI Update

= 2.5.0 =
# UI Update

= 2.4.0 =
# End Eid sale

= 2.3.9 =
# Eid sale

= 2.3.8 =
# Removed New year sale

= 2.3.7 =
# New year sale

= 2.3.6 =
# Christmas sale

= 2.3.5 =
# Removed BF sale

= 2.3.4 =
# BF sale

= 2.3.3 =
# BF sale

= 2.3.2 =
# Removed Halloween sale


= 2.3.1 =
# Halloween sale

= 2.3.0 =
# Updated the support section

= 2.2.9 =
# AI comment reply

= 2.2.8 =
# Removed admin notice

= 2.2.7 =
# Added admin notice

= 2.2.6 =
# Fixed admin notice

= 2.2.5 =
# Added admin notice

= 2.2.4 =
# Update button style

= 2.2.2 =
# Some UI update

= 2.2.0 =
# Update to pro feature

= 2.1.9 =
# Fixed a php warning

= 2.1.8 =
# Added voice recording message with comments

= 2.1.6 =
# UI improvements

= 2.1.6 =
# wp_verify_nonce added for Delete comments.

= 2.1.4 =
# Added extra hook to remove author link

= 2.1.3 =
# Added extra filters for website field remove

= 2.1.2 =
# Fixed some typos

= 2.1.1 =
# Fixed a bug with website field

= 2.1.0 =
# Informational update

= 2.0.0 =
# Improved UX and overall coding

= 1.9.0 =
# More pro features

= 1.9.0 =
# More pro features

= 1.7 =
# Removed some unused coding

= 1.0 =
# Initial version of Comment Link Remove

= 1.5 =
# Added option: Disable Comments Globally    
# Added option: Hide Existing Comments    
# Added option: Open Comment Links in New Tab

 == Upgrade Notice ==
 