WordPress hook directory
comment_author
Description
Applied to the comment author's name retrieved from the database by the comment_author function. See also get_comment_author.
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WordPress version history for comment_author
This database has information for all major versions from WP 1.2.1 through 2.6. (Note that some intermediate versions are not indexed, particularly 2.0.1 through 2.0.10.) If 2.6 does not show up below, then this hook is deprecated.
| Version | File | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.1 | wp-includes/template-functions-comment.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 1.2.2 | wp-includes/template-functions-comment.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 1.5 | wp-includes/comment-functions.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 1.5.1 | wp-includes/comment-functions.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 1.5.2 | wp-includes/comment-functions.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.0 | wp-includes/comment-functions.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.0.11 | wp-includes/comment-functions.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.1 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.1.3 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.2 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.2.1 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.2.2 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.2.3 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.3 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.3.1 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.3.2 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.3.3 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.5 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.6 | wp-includes/comment-template.php | View hook in source | filter |
Related Hooks
We find related hooks using word stems. comment_author has 2 significant word stem(s): comment, author. Note that some of the hooks below may not appear in all versions of WP.