Description
Advanced Comment Form enables you to customize the WordPress comment form right from your dashboard.
You can find the settings page under Comments > Comment Form in the dashboard.
Remove Fields
- remove the email field for standard, and non standard comment forms
- remove the website field for standard, and non standard comment forms
Change Text
- remove the message that emails are not published and which fields are required
- remove the text about which html tags are allowed
- insert custom text before the form
- insert custom text after the form
Layouts
- use a two columns layout for the comment form
Shortcode
[comment-form]shortcode to insert comment form into posts and pages
Important Notes
- the plugin works only, if your theme uses the standard WordPress comment form function
- options that where submitted with the
comment_formfunction in your template overwrite most of the plugin functions
Screenshots
Comment form before and after applying some of the plugin options 
Two-column comment form layout
Installation
- Upload the plugin folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Visit the settings page under
Comments > Comment Formto customize the form
Reviews
inge12
September 26, 2024
This plugin currently works perfectly with WordPress 6.6.2
I just wanted to remove the “website” field but found that it was much more useful than that: I could add a note at the top of the form to see our Comment Guidelines and a note at the bottom to ask commenters to check that they had input their name and a working email address.
I sure hope the developer keeps this up-to-date!
P.S. I can’t find a clear path to donate!
Very easy to use and it worked for my site. Much cleaner looking comment field now. Thanks
This plugin does what it says. Thank you for creating it!
<!– wp:paragraph –>
<p>Super to reduce spams, and all those just looking after backlinks, which are no more useful nowadays</p>
<!– /wp:paragraph –>
I love this plugin for some reason. Just awesome. Thank you!
Wanted to remove the website url line and email line from the comment form, plus leave a quick please stay on topic and be nice message, and this plugin allowed me to do it in just a few minutes. Thumbs up and thank you Thomas.
Contributors & Developers
“Advanced Comment Form” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Translate “Advanced Comment Form” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.2.3
- Small tweaks
1.2.2
- Ignore two-column style on screens below 480px
1.2.1
- sanitize the input into text options using
wp_kses_postto prevent the usage of scripts and disallowed tags and attributes.
1.2.0
- added two columns layout
- restructured admin area
1.1.0
- renamed the plugin to Advanced Comment Form
- hopefully fixed some issues with the readme file
- remove website field using css as an alternative method
- added
[comment-form]shortcode to insert comment form into posts and pages
1.0.1
- so many plugins written and still not getting the readme.txt right
1.0
- first version of the plugin