wp-includes/comment-template.php:24Retrieves the author of the current comment.
$comment_idint|WP_Commentoptional0stringOne hook fires while get_comment_author() runs, in this order:
Filters the returned comment author name.
function get_comment_author( $comment_id = 0 ) { $comment = get_comment( $comment_id ); if ( ! empty( $comment->comment_ID ) ) { $comment_id = $comment->comment_ID; } elseif ( is_scalar( $comment_id ) ) { $comment_id = (string) $comment_id; } else { $comment_id = '0'; } if ( empty( $comment->comment_author ) ) { $user = ! empty( $comment->user_id ) ? get_userdata( $comment->user_id ) : false; if ( $user ) { $comment_author = $user->display_name; } else { $comment_author = __( 'Anonymous' ); } } else { $comment_author = $comment->comment_author; } /** * Filters the returned comment author name. * * @since 1.5.0 * @since 4.1.0 The `$comment_id` and `$comment` parameters were added. * * @param string $comment_author The comment author's username. * @param string $comment_id The comment ID as a numeric string. * @param WP_Comment $comment The comment object. */ return apply_filters( 'get_comment_author', $comment_author, $comment_id, $comment );}Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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