How do I remove email box from comments in Wordpress?

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Does anyone know how to remove the email box from Wordpress comments and also maybe add a captcha in the process?

Thanks!

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It depends on what theme you’re using, but most likely the HTML for the email input is in comments.php

<div class="form-input">
  <input id="email" name="email"
 class="text<?php if ($req) echo ' required'; ?>"
 type="text" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email ?>"
 size="30" maxlength="50" tabindex="4" />
</div>

You could comment out the label/input mark-up <!-- –>

As for CAPTCHA, try one of the plugins. I don’t use CAPTCHA for my blog, so I can’t recommend one, but I imagine any found in the WordPress plugin directory will work.

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Hey thanks for the reply Mittineague,
The only problem I am concerned with is when it says that the email is mandatory, will this create a problem?

I really just want it to maybe have a line for a name, or anonymous name.

Thanks.

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Yes, that would be a problem if you had your “Discussion Settings” “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail” checked. Otherwise AFAIK it would work OK without the email input.

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cool, thanks I didn’t know that was there :wink:

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Something like the following should work:

<input id="email" name="email"
  type="hidden" value="bla@bla.com" />

Basically you would be specifying a random (invisible) email address for every user. That way an email address would always be specified but the user wouldn’t need to add it themselves.

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cool, that’s a good idea ryan. Thanks.

I found the options box that Mittineague was talking about, and now I have updated the email part to read (optional) and it has seemed to work so far.

Thanks!