This is very useful if you have lots of people posting pieces of code in your comments. No longer will it disappear!
// This will occur when the comment is postedfunction plc_comment_post( $incoming_comment ) { // convert everything in a comment to display literally$incoming_comment['comment_content'] = htmlspecialchars($incoming_comment['comment_content']); // the one exception is single quotes, which cannot be #039; because WordPress marks it as spam$incoming_comment['comment_content'] = str_replace( "'", ''', $incoming_comment['comment_content'] ); return( $incoming_comment ); } // This will occur before a comment is displayed function plc_comment_display( $comment_to_display ) { // Put the single quotes back in $comment_to_display = str_replace( ''', "'", $comment_to_display ); return $comment_to_display; } add_filter( 'preprocess_comment', 'plc_comment_post', '', 1); add_filter( 'comment_text', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1); add_filter( 'comment_text_rss', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1); add_filter( 'comment_excerpt', 'plc_comment_display', '', 1);