Can you give the page URL?
The purpose is comment-spam prevention and I don’t think it can be removed without hacking the core, but maybe someone else knows a way.
You could altering the comment_form() (usually the last line of comments.php in your theme folder.
Based on http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form, I might try something like…
<?php
$commenter = wp_get_current_commenter();
$fields = array(
'author' => '<p class="comment-form-author">' . '<label for="author">' . __( 'Name' ) . '</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' ) . '</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>',*/ /*COMMENTED OUT EMAIL */
'url' => '<p class="comment-form-url"><label for="url">' . __( 'Website' ) . '</label>' .
'<input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author_url'] ) . '" size="30" /></p>',
);
comment_form($fields);
?>
Thanks for this. There is no code at all similar to this in my theme – based on Steira.
I have a feeling it might be in the core somewhere. I am not that knowledge when it comes to coding.
I might think of a way to explain it differently somehow in the email field.
The comments.php file is not in your core.
I just downloaded that theme and there is a file called comments.php in the Steira theme. Go to your Appearances tab and you should see in the Editor a file called Comments.
Replace the line
<?php comment_form(); ?>
with the above stuff and see if that works.
Even if you remove the email input field itself, I think the form script will still be looking for it as a required field. Again, maybe there is a workaround for this, but I Googled yesterday and couldn’t find one.
Yeah, I spent a bit of time searching as well. I did manage to remove the url field.
Not to worry, thanks both for your help. I will just play with the public text around the email field.
