Removing the comment author’s hyperlink

in your php files you will haev something like:

<?php the_author() ?>

or

<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>

replace it with this:

<?php $author = get_the_author(); echo $author; ?>

I still did not get where to do so … in the theme php files? Could you please tell me where on the default theme?

In the default theme: eg ..\wp-content\themes\default it’s only in the index.php file:

...
<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author() ?></small>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>
...

it’s this line: <?php the_author() ?>

I think there is a misunderstanding, I am talking about the url of visitors who leave comments, not the post authors.

The author of a comment has a link displayed close to the avatar, I want to remove that link, as many people come and leave their links to generate backlinks.

ah, oops. misread your posts.

https://techallica.com/remove-link-to-comment-authors-websiteite-from-wordpress-comments/

that’s handled in the core functions. you could rename the function and call your new function in your comments.php if you don’t want to mess with core files.