I am getting hammered by manually submitted comment spam and would like to eliminate the “Website” field from my comment form. I’ve read some “How To” articles on this but their php recommended changes vary a lot. I am posting the comment form php from flexform below. Could you show me exactly how to alter this code to safely remove the website URL field in my comment form please?
/* COMMENT ENTRY FORM
================================================== */
?>
<?php if ( ‘open’ == $post->comment_status ) : ?>
<div id=”respond-wrap”>
<?php
$commenter = wp_get_current_commenter();
$req = get_option( ‘require_name_email’ );
$aria_req = ( $req ? ” aria-required=’true'” : ” );
$fields = array(
‘author’ => ‘<p class=”comment-form-author”><label for=”author”>’ . __( ‘Name’, ‘swiftframework’ ) . ‘</label> ‘ . ( $req ? ‘<span class=”required”>*</span>’ : ” ) . ‘<input id=”author” name=”author” type=”text” value=”‘ . esc_attr( $commenter[‘comment_author’] ) . ‘” size=”30″‘ . $aria_req . ‘ /></p>’,
’email’ => ‘<p class=”comment-form-email”><label for=”email”>’ . __( ‘Email’, ‘swiftframework’ ) . ‘</label> ‘ . ( $req ? ‘<span class=”required”>*</span>’ : ” ) . ‘<input id=”email” name=”email” type=”text” value=”‘ . esc_attr( $commenter[‘comment_author_email’] ) . ‘” size=”30″‘ . $aria_req . ‘ /></p>’,
‘url’ => ‘<p class=”comment-form-url”><label for=”url”>’ . __( ‘Website’, ‘swiftframework’ ) . ‘</label><input id=”url” name=”url” type=”text” value=”‘ . esc_attr( $commenter[‘comment_author_url’] ) . ‘” size=”30″ /></p>’
);
$comments_args = array(
‘fields’ => apply_filters( ‘comment_form_default_fields’, $fields ),
‘logged_in_as’ => ‘<p class=”logged-in-as”>’ . sprintf( __( ‘Logged in as %2$s. Log out?‘, ‘swiftframework’ ), admin_url( ‘profile.php’ ), $user_identity, wp_logout_url( apply_filters( ‘the_permalink’, get_permalink( ) ) ) ) . ‘</p>’,
‘title_reply’ => __( ‘Leave a reply’, ‘swiftframework’ ),
‘title_reply_to’ => __( ‘Leave a reply to %s’, ‘swiftframework’ ),
‘cancel_reply_link’ => __( ‘Click here to cancel the reply’, ‘swiftframework’ ),
‘label_submit’ => __( ‘Post comment’, ‘swiftframework’ ),
‘comment_field’ => ‘<p class=”comment-form-comment”><label for=”comment”>’ . __( ‘Comment’, ‘swiftframework’ ) . ‘</label><textarea id=”comment” name=”comment” cols=”45″ rows=”8″ aria-required=”true”></textarea></p>’,
‘must_log_in’ => ‘<p class=”must-log-in”>’ . sprintf( __( ‘You must be logged in to post a comment.’, ‘swiftframework’ ), wp_login_url( apply_filters( ‘the_permalink’, get_permalink( ) ) ) ) . ‘</p>’,
);
?>
<?php comment_form($comments_args); ?>
</div>
<?php endif /* if ( ‘open’ == $post->comment_status ) */ ?>
</div><!– #comments –>
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