Remove URL form in Comments

[mshonhall]

I've been trying to figure out how to remove the URL form from the comments section of the blog, but, haven't had much luck.

The only way I've found, is to delete it in the comments.php file. And, I found that file in the Theme Editor.

I already have a child theme for our .css changes. How do I create a child theme for the comments.php file, so that my changes stick through the next update?

Thanks in advance for your help and advice!

Shon

[Colin]

Sayontan has written a starter kit for Child Themes you can get it from his blog. Good articles about child themes on Sayontan's blog and in the Wordpress Codex.

[sayontan]

If you copy comments.php from the parent theme to a child theme, then delete the line there you should be fine.

[mshonhall]

I have copied the comments.php file into my Child Theme directory, and deleted all uses of the URL on the page's code, but, it's still showing up.

What are the other instances that I need to remove it from?

[sayontan]

Can't really say without looking at your code.

[mshonhall]

Well, I don't mind showing you my Child Theme comments.php page, at all!

But, I was asking if there's another page that has to have the URL form deleted from that I'm still missing?

Thank you sooo much for you help!

[mshonhall]

I've found it, also, in: wp-comments-post.php in the root directory of WordPress.

But, if I delete the code from here, it'll get overwritten upon the next update, correct?

[mshonhall]

OK... I deleted instances of the URL form in the WordPress file, and that DOES indeed remove it from the page as part of the form to fill out.

I guess my final question is, is there not a place to do that within the theme itself so that I can include it in my Child Theme and not have my changes overwritten upon the next WordPress update?

http://material-handling-blog.wh1.com

[sayontan]

The answer is, again, comments.php. The function that actually prints the form is comment_form, where you control the 'fields' element of the array. Note that if you delete the 'url' element WP will substitute its own. Insteat you should pass an empty string ("") for the URL

[mshonhall]

Thank you for your time.