adding checkbox to comment form

[myersbr2]

I'm having more spam that akismet isn't catching as of late and I don't want to use a full CAPTCHA system (as they annoy me!).  However, I've seen several folks simply put a conditional checkbox in the form that says "Check here to prove you're a human" or similar.  I've found coding that does this, but it wants me to edit header.php and comments.php - big no-nos if you're on Genesis.  What should I do?  See #5 on this article for what they're suggesting I do: http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/security/6-easy-and-efficient-ways-to-combat-spam-comments/

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[Brad Dalton]

This is a more effective solution and its easy to customize and style http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/captcha/screenshots/

I would need to write custom coding to add the checkbox as there's javascript and PHP which needs to be hooked into the comment form using Genesis hooks.

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[Brad Dalton]

Another option which works well is to remove the website url field from the comment form

Code not displaying? Grab it on Github.

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[myersbr2]

I'd really like to keep the URL as that is a legitimate plus for many of my commenters. Is there a way similar to the code you posted above that would add the checkbox instead of removing the URL field?  Latham code looks simple enough in its functionality to remove a field. Sorry to be ignorant but I wonder why adding one should be any harder?

[Brad Dalton]

It takes time to write the code and test it as i can't find any out there at the moment.

I do have this code saved on Gist and locally in Notepad++ so i will work on this and post here when its working.

Simple enough. These little things take a fair amount of time to write from scratch sometimes, to be honest, Bare with me please.

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[Brad Dalton]

Here's another solution which adds a checkbox simply by installing the plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/

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[myersbr2]

Thanks for this plug-in solution!  Works perfectly.  And my previous post where I said simple, I definitely didn't mean "EASY".  Simple and easy are rarely the same thing! 🙂

[Brad Dalton]

hahaha. Good stuff!

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