Title: Disable plugin parser in comments
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Disable plugin parser in comments

 *  [nitio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nitio/)
 * (@nitio)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-plugin-parser-in-comments/)
 * Is there a way to disable plugins to be used in comments? I don’t want my visitors“
   accidentaly” doing stuff 😐 Or at least not let them looser some text because
   of formatting of Markdown and DokuWiki.
    Or will I need to edit the plugins themselves?
 * thanks

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-plugin-parser-in-comments/#post-276802)
 * So you want these available for you but not them, right? In that case, I would
   think by far the easiest thing to do would be simply deactivate them until YOU
   need them….
 *  Thread Starter [nitio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nitio/)
 * (@nitio)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-plugin-parser-in-comments/#post-276803)
 * Well, since the post is parsed and then showed not formatted and stored in the
   database I don’t think this solution works.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-plugin-parser-in-comments/#post-276804)
 * *shrug* I’ve no use for markdown in the first place, so no clue what you could
   do else. Never ran across dokuwiki so REALLY don’t know about it.
 * Why do you need a formatting plugin anyway? The quicktags really provide all 
   the functionality most posters need.
 *  Thread Starter [nitio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nitio/)
 * (@nitio)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-plugin-parser-in-comments/#post-276806)
 * well, I don’t disagree with you, but since I write mostly plain text and I’ve
   found that using *TEXT* or ‘TEXT’ or _TEXT_ to make my text “highlighted”
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-plugin-parser-in-comments/#post-276807)
 * I believe my choice would be to disable the “extras” if you’re concerned about
   your posters – do you really need the “highlighting”? Why not simply use CAPS,
   or the bold etc. tags available in the quicktags?
 * The less you have to agonize, the better….
 *  [michelfortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michelfortin/)
 * (@michelfortin)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-plugin-parser-in-comments/#post-277243)
 * nitio, if you’re using Markdown, make sure you have the latest version of [PHP Markdown](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/).
   On the PHP Markdown page you can read:
 * **WordPress-Specific Settings**
 * By default, the Markdown plugin applies to both posts and comments on your WordPress
   weblog. To deactivate one or the other, edit the `$md_wp_posts` or `$md_wp_comments`
   variable under the “WordPress settings� header at the start of the “markdown.
   php� file.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-plugin-parser-in-comments/#post-277243)
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