Is there a way to only add 'name' to comments?

Hi there,

I think we could try enable names and e-mails then hide the e-mails field with CSS.

Can you link me to the page in question?

Here is one of the pages. It seems I've lost a lot of my formatting too. I use the Exhibit theme, generate press is inactive, should I have left that activated? I thought if I use a child theme my formatting would stay when the site is updated???

https://kenscritters.com/black-bear-and-raccoon/

Try this CSS:

.comment-form #email {
    display: none;
}

Not sure what you mean by lost your format? The child theme should link to the parent theme.

Figured out the formatting problem, gp premium was deactivated, all sorted out now.

For the css - where would I put that?

One of these methods: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

It doesn't display the email, like I wanted so that worked fine, however, it throws an error message - Please fill out required fields- email, name.

It's not a huge deal. Thanks.

You should be able to make it so the email isn't required in "Settings > Discussion".

As far as I can tell there is only a spot to either have the email and name together or not at all.
Not sure why they did it that way.

Looked this up a bit and don't think there is a way.

They did this to reduce spammers I think.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Discussion_Screen

Not to mention it would be nice to get rid of the website field as well. Seriously, wordpress should know better than this.

Thank you for your time. What a pain. And then they add in the website, why????? Probably time for a break, me thinks.

Might be worth starting a topic with WordPress support to see if there is a way:
https://wordpress.org/support/

Glad we could help!

Thanks. I think I'll do that. It should be an option, and it can't be that hard to add it to the core..
Thanks for your help

No problem :)