Title: Comment Link Manager
Author: rrolfe
Published: <strong>Korse 18, 2009</strong>
Last modified: Jolal 14, 2011

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Comment Link Manager

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comment-link-manager.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-link-manager/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-link-manager/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-link-manager/#installation)
 * [Development](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-link-manager/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-link-manager/)

## Description

The CLM plugin allows wordpress admins to have more control over the links left 
by users who leave
 comments on their blogs. Admins are provided with the ability
to remove all author links from comments unless the user has made an admin specified
number of comments. You are also provided with the ability to override that setting
with whitelist and blacklist features. The full list of features provided by the
CLM plugin is below

**Features**

 * Enables admins to remove nofollow attribute from comment author links
 * Allows for optional removal of nofollow attribute from links left in the body
   of comments
 * Provides admins with the ability to open comment author and body links in a new
   browser window.
 * Provides ability for admins to require a specified number of comments before 
   enabling comment author links
 * Has built in whitelist and blacklist functions to override general setting of
   required number of comments

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Admin panel options page for comment link manager plugin

## Installation

Installation of the comment link manager plugin is very straight forward.

 1. Upload `comment-link-manager.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress Admin
 3. Use the `Settings -> Comment Link Manager` options page to enable desired features.

## FAQ

  Why are there no questions here?

Simple.. Nobody has asked any yet!

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[No longer updated and has sever security vulnerabilities](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-longer-updated-and-has-sever-security-vulnerabilities/)󠁿

 [stymiee](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stymiee/) Duujal 10, 2024

This plugin has not been updated in 12 years as of this writing. It contains sever
security vulnerabilities which allow for files to be placed on your web server and
exploited by bad actors. This plugin should NOT be installed.

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-link-manager/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Comment Link Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

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

[Translate “Comment Link Manager” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/comment-link-manager)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/comment-link-manager/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/comment-link-manager/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-link-manager/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-link-manager/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

2011-11-14

 * Removed PHP Short tags
 * Changed from print() to echo
 * Fixed invalid use of _e function
 * Generally cleaned up code

#### 1.0

2009-06-18

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.2.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-link-manager/)
 * Tags
 * [author links](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author-links/)[comments](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
   [new window](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/new-window/)[nofollow](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/nofollow/)
   [spam](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/comment-link-manager/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

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

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-link-manager/)

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