How To Remove Website Field From Comment Form

Stopping comment form spam from website field

I never had an intend to post this article on how to remove website field from the comment form, till one of my friend requested me to help him to remove the website field from his blog where he publishes exam results from all the universities from India.

Last week I had visited SEOMMOtips.com and happened to read this post for the first time and also left a comment not knowing the same wordpress hack I will be posting here.

Suresh had removed URL field from his another blog ICTTrends.com to safe guard from lots of unwanted comments which are not related to the post and was the same issue with theexamresult.com

It is obvious that the comments were spam as the website comment field were being used to spam URLs to generate traffic, though these days most of the blog are no-follow which does not give any credit, but most of the legitimate users also ends up posting non existing urls in the website comment field, thinking its mandatory requirement.

How to remove URL field from comment form?

There many other ways of doing this hacks but the most easiest way and safest is to create a small plugin for removing the Website Field from the comment form.

Creating a Plugin to remove Website field from comment form.

1. Create this plugin using notepad application from windows and remember to save the file with a .php extension Eg : removeurl.php

2. Copy and paste the below code in the file created in step 1

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Remove Website Field
Description: Removes the website field from the comments form
*/
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields', 'url_filtered');
function url_filtered($fields)
{
  if(isset($fields['url']))
   unset($fields['url']);
  return $fields;
}
?>

Plugin Credit goes to TechHacking.com

3. Save your changes and upload it via FTP or through your web hosts file manager to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

4. Go plugins menu option in your wordpress admin area and activate the plugin.  With this simple hack you will be to remove the website field from the comment form.

If  in any case the plugin does not work or the function does not work you can also use this method, I used this method in lot of my customization work and its proved to be very effect without any problem.

To do so open your theme main css (Style Sheet) copy and paste below code

#commentform #url, #commentform #url +label {display:none;}

and save file and for thesis users you can paste the above css code in custom.css or base.css if you are using skin plugin from thesisthemes.com

If you have any problems using this in your blog, you can always post your queries in our commenting section and I will try to solve ASAP.

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