Chetan Vaghela

The plugin provides a funcationality to add validation on WordPress default comment form using Javascript and prevents it from dying when an error occurs and user can prevent to die on duplicate comment message.
<h3>Features And Options:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Validation on required fields using javascript.</li>
<li>prevent to die on comment form error message.</li>
<li>On duplicate comment display message below comment form instead die.</li>
<li>Change Comment form submit button text</li>
</ul>

Comment form validation and Customization

Wordpress default comment form validation using javascript and customization.

Thomas Maier

Rock Solid

Advanced Comment Form enables you to customize the WordPress comment form right from your dashboard.
You can find the settings page under <code>Comments > Comment Form</code> in the dashboard.
Remove Fields
<ul>
<li>remove the email field for standard, and non standard comment forms</li>
<li>remove the website field for standard, and non standard comment forms</li>
</ul>
Change Text
<ul>
<li>remove the message that emails are not published and which fields are required</li>
<li>remove the text about which html tags are allowed</li>
<li>insert custom text before the form</li>
<li>insert custom text after the form</li>
</ul>
Layouts
<ul>
<li>use a two columns layout for the comment form</li>
</ul>
Shortcode
<ul>
<li><code>[comment-form]</code> shortcode to insert comment form into posts and pages</li>
</ul>
<h3>Important Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>the plugin works only, if your theme uses the standard WordPress comment form function</li>
<li>options that where submitted with the <code>comment_form</code> function in your template overwrite most of the plugin functions</li>
</ul>

Advanced Comment Form

Advanced Comment Form lets you customize plenty of things on the default comment forms in WordPress.

Comment form validation and Customization vs Advanced Comment Form