Advanced Comment Form

June 06, 2024

Advanced Comment Form Plugin

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

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

Installation

  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

Screenshots

  1. Comment form before and after applying some of the plugin options

    Comment form before and after applying some of the plugin options

  2. Two-column comment form layout

    Two-column comment form layout

Changelog

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

Details

  • Version: 1.2.3
  • Active installations: 6,000
  • WordPress Version: 6.0
  • Tested up to: 6.5.5
  • PHP Version: 7.2

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