Changing comment fields to remove asterisks?

Resolved smellpress
(@smellpress)

4 years, 7 months ago

I have made the name and email fields optional in the WordPress settings, and would like to remove the asterisks from the fields because they give a misleading impression that the fields are required.

I have copied comments.php into my child theme and have successfully modified some aspects of it, but cannot manage to change placeholder="Name *" and placeholder="Email *", even when when wrapping comment_form($args) in str_replace()! Attempting to replace the HTML with $fields['author'] = "myMarkupHere" ceases to do anything, though I can use that for fictional fields – a possible workaround?

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Theme Author

Tom

(@edge22)

4 years, 7 months ago

Hi there,

You shouldn’t need to overwrite comments.php.

Instead, add this function:

add_filter( 'comment_form_default_fields', function( $fields ) {
    $commenter = wp_get_current_commenter();

    $fields['author'] = sprintf(
        '<label for="author" class="screen-reader-text">%1$s</label><input placeholder="%1$s" id="author" name="author" type="text" value="%2$s" size="30" />',
        esc_html__( 'Name', 'generatepress' ),
        esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author'] )
    );

    $fields['email'] = sprintf(
        '<label for="email" class="screen-reader-text">%1$s</label><input placeholder="%1$s" id="email" name="email" type="email" value="%2$s" size="30" />',
        esc_html__( 'Email', 'generatepress' ),
        esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author_email'] )
    );

    return $fields;
}, 20 );

Thread Starter

smellpress

(@smellpress)

4 years, 7 months ago

Cheers, it works!