How To Remove The "Click here to cancel reply" Link From The Wordpress Comment Form

Question

I am trying to remove the "Click here to cancel reply" link from the Wordpress comment form on my posts. In the document there is an argument you can supply to the comment form function to remove the link, but it doesn't appear to be working. The documentation link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form

I have tried different values for the cancel_reply_link value including double quotes, double quotes with a space between them, a zero and a value of false; all of which were to no avail. Surely I am overlooking something here as removing that link is pretty common in Wordpress installations.

Here is the current function call with parameters that I am using at present:

<?php comment_form(

array(
    'comment_notes_before' => FALSE,
    'comment_notes_after'  => FALSE,
    'cancel_reply_link'    => FALSE
)

); ?>

Your help is gratefully appreciated.

Answer 1

add_filter( 'cancel_comment_reply_link', '__return_false' );

See /wp-includes/comment-template.php#function get_cancel_comment_reply_link() for more background.

But if you do that the reply form will not move to the comment. The more interesting question is: Why doesn’t the link work for you? Do you have this line in your footer?

is_singular() and get_option( 'thread_comments' ) and wp_print_scripts( 'comment-reply' );

Answer 2

When you pass false to that argument get_cancel_comment_reply_link() function that is used down the chain falls back to default value.

Pass something else (like single space) or filter cancel_comment_reply_link hook to override output.