Removing sensitive information from comment notifications - notify_post_author

Question

Basically I need to remove or comment our lines 1114 - 1116 in pluggable.php, and edit line 1113

These are the lines

$notify_message .= sprintf( __('Author : %1$s (IP: %2$s , %3$s)'), $comment->comment_author, $comment->comment_author_IP, $comment_author_domain ) . "\r\n";
$notify_message .= sprintf( __('E-mail : %s'), $comment->comment_author_email ) . "\r\n";
$notify_message .= sprintf( __('URL    : %s'), $comment->comment_author_url ) . "\r\n";
$notify_message .= sprintf( __('URL    : %s'), $comment->comment_author_url ) . "\r\n";

They are all part of function - wp_notify_postauthor

I can replace the whole thing by creating a plugin (which is what I've done) - but is there a way to just change those affected lines - without replacing the whole function?

Thanks

Answer 1

There is a hook that should let you alter that data-- comment_notification_text.

add_action(
  'comment_notification_text',
  function($notify_message,$comment_id) {
    var_dump($notify_message,$comment_id);
    die;
  },
  10,2
);

You could parse that $notify_message string and remove the parts you don't want.

add_filter(
  'comment_notification_text',
  function($notify_message) {
    $notify_message = explode("\n",$notify_message);
    foreach ($notify_message as $k => $line) {
      $header = trim(substr($line,0,strpos($line,':')));
      switch ($header) {
        case 'E-mail':
        case 'URL' :
        case 'Whois':
          unset($notify_message[$k]);
        break;
        case 'Author' :
          $pat = '([^(]+)\(.*$';
          $notify_message[$k] = trim(preg_replace('|'.$pat.'|','$1',$line));
        break;
      }
    }
    $notify_message = implode("\n",$notify_message);
    return $notify_message;
  }
);

I think that accomplishes what you were going for.