I will start with saying that the external links from our websites pass some of our own juice to the website that they link to.
That is not bad thing at all, i love my juice being passed to websites like WordPress org or to the websites that have similar content like mine e.g websites of the plugin authors that i review and promote on fivera net or tool that i use like Pingdom or codepen io.
But i certainly dont want my juice to go to exterminate rats with this great new poison website, only because the author has made decent comment on one of my articles..
So I have created this simple yet effective plugin to keep the external links to the minimum..
Upload the folder to the wp-content plugins directory.
Activate the plugin through 'Plugins WordPress...
It removes the Website field from the comments modifies comment form default fields..
It hides the the hyperlink under comment author box modifies the behavior of get author comment link...
So all the future comments will not have the website field at all and you don't have to worry about the comments that are already on your website as it will hide them showing the comment authors name as plain text...
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
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