get_comment_author_url() │ WP 1.5.0

Returns the URL of the comment author (usually this is the commentator's website). Returns the URL, not the HTML tag <a>. Used within the comments loop. If the comment author does not have a link specified, it will return an empty string.

To immediately output the result of this function, use comment_author_url().

Used By: get_comment_author_link(), comment_author_url()
Hooks from the function

Returns

String. URL or an empty string.

Usage

$url = get_comment_author_url( $comment_ID );
$comment_ID(integer/object)
ID or object of the comment, the URL of the author of which needs to be obtained. By default, the current comment in the loop.

Examples

0

#1 Get the URL of the comment author 

$comment_author = get_comment_author_url(); 
echo $comment_author;

// Returns: http://example.com

Changelog

Since 1.5.0 Introduced.
Since 4.4.0 Added the ability for $comment_id to also accept a WP_Comment object.

get_comment_author_url() code WP 7.0

wp-includes/comment-template.php 
function get_comment_author_url( $comment_id = 0 ) {
	$comment = get_comment( $comment_id );

	$comment_author_url = '';
	$comment_id         = 0;

	if ( ! empty( $comment ) ) {
		$comment_author_url = ( 'http://' === $comment->comment_author_url ) ? '' : $comment->comment_author_url;
		$comment_author_url = esc_url( $comment_author_url, array( 'http', 'https' ) );

		$comment_id = $comment->comment_ID;
	}

	/**
	 * Filters the comment author's URL.
	 *
	 * @since 1.5.0
	 * @since 4.1.0 The `$comment_id` and `$comment` parameters were added.
	 *
	 * @param string          $comment_author_url The comment author's URL, or an empty string.
	 * @param string|int      $comment_id         The comment ID as a numeric string, or 0 if not found.
	 * @param WP_Comment|null $comment            The comment object, or null if not found.
	 */
	return apply_filters( 'get_comment_author_url', $comment_author_url, $comment_id, $comment );
}

Comments

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