Can't remove website field in comment form (Wordpress 3.0)

Question

I followed the instructions in this site but there's no such code inside the comment.php. I'm using Starkers theme but there's nothing inside which seems to control the website field.

Is it in a nw position now in Wordpress 3.0?

Where is it?

Answer 1

The comment form is controlled by the comment_form() function. You have 2 options if you want to change it's output:

1. Change the $fields argument when you call it to remove the comment_author_url.
2. Filter the output of the function in your theme's functions.php.

Fields argument

$your_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>',
);
comment_form(array('fields' => $your_fields));

Filter

function your_comment_form_fields($the_form_fields){
    // code to remove the author field from $the_form_fields
    return $the_form_fields;
}
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields', 'your_comment_form_fields');