Going through the comments table on my wordpress site, I noticed that wordpress is storing the ip address of everyone who makes a comment on my site. How do I remove this functionality?
I’m not just talking about the display of the ip in the template, I mean I don’t want wordpress to capture it in the first place.
Answers:
Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as advisements. If you found the post helpful (or not), leave a comment & I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Method 1
Add this to your functions.php:
add_filter('pre_comment_user_ip', 'no_ips');
function no_ips($comment_author_ip){
return '';
}
You’ll still have the comment_author_IP field in the db, but it will be empty…
And to remove existing IP records from the db run this query:
UPDATE `wp_comments` SET `comment_author_IP` = ''
All methods was sourced from stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5, cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0