Removing Website field from Comments form

Hi guys,

I want to remove the Website field from the comments submission form because it’s a spam magnet. I did some digging around the WordPress forums, and some people suggest adding this to functions.php:

function remove_comment_fields($fields) {
    unset($fields['email']);
    unset($fields['url']);
    return $fields;
}
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields', 'remove_comment_fields');

Would that work?

Looks like it will (and tested on my site). You can remove the line with “email” because that will remove the email field as well.

Note that the functions.php you’d want to add this to would be in a child theme so the fix can survive theme updates.