Removing the Website field from the Hestia Comment form

  • Resolved Graham Stoney

    (@greyham)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi there,

    Firstly, thanks so much for an awesome theme!

    I have a small customisation I’d like help with please: I’d like to remove the Website field from the comment submission form to reduce the amount of spam comments I get on my sites. I’ve tried a couple of plugins and Additional CSS attempts, but I can’t make the field disappear. I’d like this to work for automated spam in particular, so just hiding the field may not be sufficient. I figure that anyone who wants to leave a website link isn’t a legitimate comment-leaver.

    Thanks,
    Graham

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • rodicaelena

    (@rodicaelena)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @greyham,

    Thank you for using our theme! We are really happy you’re enjoying it.
    To remove the email field you can try using this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-fields/

    Regards,
    Rodcia

    Thread Starter Graham Stoney

    (@greyham)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Rodcia,

    Thanks so much for your quick response! I’ve tried that plugin and it does in fact work; unfortunately it also removes a couple of other unrelated things like the author bio which I actually want to keep. I’ve posted in the Remove Fields support forum about this, but the plugin hasn’t been updated in 3 years so I’m not too hopeful I’ll get a response.

    Meanwhile I’m open to any other suggestions anyone has…

    Cheers,
    Graham

    pherrera

    (@pherrera)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    I am not subscribed to this thread, please don’t send me more emails

    casperjj

    (@casperjj)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Graham. I’m looking for the same thing so I went to your link above. It seems you were able to remove the website requirement and also added a check box for signing up for the website. Can you tell me how you managed to do both? Thanks!
    Joanne

    Thread Starter Graham Stoney

    (@greyham)

    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hey Joanne,

    I removed the website field with the Remove Fields plugin; but it also removes the author bio which I want to retain on my other sites. Plus, I’ve had some presumably-automated comment spam with website links in it. My ideal solution would be to remove the website field, and automatically flag any comment with a website link as spam; but I haven’t found a plugin that does this yet. If you come across a solution, please let me know.

    The signup checkbox is a feature of MailPoet, which I use to generate newsletters.

    Cheers,
    Graham

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Graham Stoney.
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