Remove the website field from comments

The comment form stops asking for a website address, which removes the reason many spammers comment. Links already on old comments stay.

Type PHP
Runs Everywhere (runs as WordPress loads)
Category Comments
Tested with WordPress 7.1

PHP

<?php

add_filter(
	'comment_form_default_fields',
	static function ( $fields ) {
		unset( $fields['url'] );
		return $fields;
	}
);

Good to know

Works with classic and block themes (the Comments Form block uses the same fields).

In these packs

Comments: Fewer spam comments and more control: close old posts, set minimum and maximum lengths, a spam trap, no links.

Install it in one click

It's already in the Snipfire plugin's library. Enter your site's address and it opens there, ready to install. It arrives switched off, and Snipfire checks the code and test-loads your site before you switch it on.

Needs Snipfire on that site and you logged in as an administrator. Your address stays in this browser; we don't see it. Get Snipfire free

Or add it by hand

Click + New and choose PHP.
Paste the code and give it a name.
Where: Everywhere (runs as WordPress loads).
Save and switch it on.

Works in any snippet plugin, or a child theme's functions.php. Without the safety net, though.

Good to know

In these packs

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