Title: Avoid Linkback Abuse (ALA)
Author: mandsconsulting
Published: <strong>9 December 2013</strong>
Last modified: 17 December 2014

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# Avoid Linkback Abuse (ALA)

 By [mandsconsulting](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mandsconsulting/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/avoid-linkback-abuse.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-linkback-abuse/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-linkback-abuse/#developers)

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## Description

Some commentors try to abuse the WordPress Comment’s built in URL feature by submitting
advertising, spam, or otherwise unwanted links.

Avoid Linkback Abuse tries to prevent this by providing two different modes of operation:

 * Strip all anchors from comment author’s names as they appear
    in the comments
   list at the end of posts (always on when the plugin is activated).
    - In addition to the above, this mode will remove
       entirely the ability for 
      commentors to leave a URL. Assuming you’re using the default WP Comments plugin
      without any additional comment-modifying plugins, this mode still allows commentors
      to leave their name and email.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Comment section with ALA. No Website field.

## Installation

 1. Upload ‘ala’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
 2. Activate plugin from plugin directory.

## FAQ

  What does this do?

This plugin simply removes the ability for users to provide a URL on comments to
prevent link back spam.

  Does this affect existing comments?

This will remove the ability to click on a comment author’s URL, but if you want
to remove the URLs entirely, that will have to be removed manually.

## Reviews

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## Contributors and Developers

“Avoid Linkback Abuse (ALA)” is open source software. The following people have 
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mandsconsulting ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mandsconsulting/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Change Log

=1.0=

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-linkback-abuse/)
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[links](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/links/)
   [spam](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/avoid-linkback-abuse/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ mandsconsulting ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mandsconsulting/)

## Support

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