Advanced Comment Form

Advanced Comment Form enables you to customize the WordPress comment form right from your dashboard.

You can find the settings page under Comments > Comment Form in the dashboard.

Remove Fields

• remove the email field for standard, and non standard comment forms
• remove the website field for standard, and non standard comment forms

Change Text

• remove the message that emails are not published and which fields are required
• remove the text about which html tags are allowed
• insert custom text before the form
• insert custom text after the form

Layouts

• use a two columns layout for the comment form

Shortcode

• [comment-form] shortcode to insert comment form into posts and pages

Important Notes

• the plugin works only, if your theme uses the standard WordPress comment form function
• options that where submitted with the comment_form function in your template overwrite most of the plugin functions

1. Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Visit the settings page under Comments > Comment Form to customize the form

1. 

   Comment form before and after applying some of the plugin options

2. 

   Two-column comment form layout

1.2.3

• Small tweaks

1.2.2

• Ignore two-column style on screens below 480px

1.2.1

• sanitize the input into text options using wp_kses_post to prevent the usage of scripts and disallowed tags and attributes.

1.2.0

• added two columns layout
• restructured admin area

1.1.0

• renamed the plugin to Advanced Comment Form
• hopefully fixed some issues with the readme file
• remove website field using css as an alternative method
• added [comment-form] shortcode to insert comment form into posts and pages

1.0.1

• so many plugins written and still not getting the readme.txt right

1.0

• first version of the plugin