Disable recording of IPs in posts

Do you want it to not even record, or do you just not want the IP address displayed there?

If you don’t want any comment IP stored I think the following plugin will work. Save what follows as noip.php and upload it to your plugins directory.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: No-IP
Plugin URI: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/37363
Description: Causes WordPress to NOT save the IP address from ANY commenter. WordPress will instead record all comment IP addresses as '127.0.0.1'
Author: WP-Forums
Author URI: https://www.ads-software.com/support/
Version: 0.1
*/

function zap_ip($ip) {
return '127.0.0.1';
}

add_filter('pre_comment_user_ip', 'zap_ip');
?>

EDIT: I do not know if this will have any impact on other WP functionality. It might be better if you chose instead to not display the comment IPs in Manage->Comments. I can tell you how to do that too.

To hide the IP addresses, but still record them, try this plugin instead. It’s not pretty, but it should work.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Hide IP in Admin
Plugin URI: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/37363
Description: This plugin will prevent Comment IP addresses from being displayed in your admin panels.
Author: WP-Forums
Author URI: https://www.ads-software.com/support/
Version: 0.1
*/

function hide_ip($ip) {
return ( strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'wp-admin/') ) ? 'hidden' : $ip;
}

add_filter('get_comment_author_IP', 'hide_ip');
?>

thanks mdawaffe I will use either one of these. I might opt to not record IPs at all.

Thank you

Would I save the following plugin code, Hide IP in Admin, as noip.php and upload it to my plugins folder?

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Hide IP in Admin
Plugin URI: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/37363
Description: This plugin will prevent Comment IP addresses from being displayed in your admin panels.
Author: WP-Forums
Author URI: https://www.ads-software.com/support/
Version: 0.1
*/

function hide_ip($ip) {
return ( strstr($_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’], ‘wp-admin/’) ) ? ‘hidden’ : $ip;
}

add_filter(‘get_comment_author_IP’, ‘hide_ip’);
?>

Yes. Save it as say “no-ip.php” in a text editor like notepad. And make sure there are no additional lines before <?php and after ?> — which can cause issues for php-only files.

note that nuking the IP could affect the ability for anti-spam plugins to work… Hiding them is much better. It also allows you to go back and see IPs when you get spammed, in case you want to actually hard-block a particular IP from access.

-d

if i send mail to some one and i wont that person to know my ip adress is that possilbe?for exmp. i wanna send from gmailto hotmail and at same time i wont that person to see my ip ….