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Going through the comments table on my wordpress site, I noticed that wordpress is storing the ip address of everyone who makes a comment on my site. How do I remove this functionality?

I'm not just talking about the display of the ip in the template, I mean I don't want wordpress to capture it in the first place.

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Add this to your functions.php:

add_filter('pre_comment_user_ip', 'no_ips');
function no_ips($comment_author_ip){
  return '';
}

You'll still have the comment_author_IP field in the db, but it will be empty...

And to remove existing IP records from the db run this query:

UPDATE `wp_comments` SET `comment_author_IP` = ''
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  • thank you very much! That was a very nice little hidden gem of a function.
    – shawn
    Jun 22, 2011 at 10:05
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    You could just set __return_zero() as filter function. No need to create a new one. :)
    – fuxia ♦
    Jun 1, 2012 at 9:34

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