Custom get_comment_author_link function doesn’t work

Hi,

I was hoping someone can help with this issue.

No matter what example I use, or alternative method I do myself, the author link is still visible in my comments section, I’ve even checked the core function within the dev references to see how this is called.

Initially, I thought there was a jetpack conflict since I was using comments from there, but even with this jetpack function turned off the username still returns a link, in my case to myblog.com/authors/emailaddress. Either way, whether it is a link to the users URL or an author page, I would like to remove it, but do not seem to see the issue here and it is super frustrating ??

Any help would be appreciated.

An example of many I’ve used…
/**
* Removes the comment author link
* @author Ren Ventura <EngageWP.com>
* @link engagewpdotcom/remove-wordpress-comment-author-link
*
* @param string $return The HTML-formatted comment author link (empty for an invalid URL)
* @param string $author The comment author’s username
* @param int $comment_ID The comment ID
*
* @return string $author
*/
add_filter( ‘get_comment_author_link’, ‘rv_remove_comment_author_link’, 10, 3 );
function rv_remove_comment_author_link( $return, $author, $comment_ID ) {
return $author;
}