[Resolved] Is there a way to only add 'name' to comments?

[Ilse Turnbull]

I’ve unchecked ‘name, and email’ for comments. But I would like to have people’s names filled out, is there away to do this?

[Leo]

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?

[Ilse Turnbull]

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/

[Leo]

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.

[Ilse Turnbull]

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

For the css – where would I put that?

[Leo]

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

[Ilse Turnbull]

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.

[Tom]

You should be able to make it so the email isn’t required in “Settings > Discussion”.

[Ilse Turnbull]

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.

[Leo]

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

[Ilse Turnbull]

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

[Ilse Turnbull]

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

[Leo]

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

Glad we could help!

[Ilse Turnbull]

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

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

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