How to Customize Comment Box in News Pro Theme?

[davidroccato]

Hi,

I'd like to change my comment box in 3 things. Is there anyone that could be so kind to help?

I have found 3 plugins that each one does only 1 thing I need and I don't really want to use 3 plugins for that.

1) REMOVE completly the Website/url field
2) CONVERT everything in the message in plain text - no html, formatting or hyperlinks allowed.
3) REMOVE comment notes at the bottom of the comment box

For your record, these are the 3 plugins that do the above:
1) https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-comment-websiteurl-box/
2) https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-literal-comments/
3) https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-comment-notes/

For what I have understood, I should add some code at the bottom of the functions.php of my theme.

Is there anyone that could tell me what kind of code I should put there? Because I don't have any idea. But is the logic right? Is it enough to add the right code at the bottom of the functions.php of the child theme and that will be enough?

Thanks

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Yes, adding the code to the bottom of your functions.php is the way to do it.

Luckily, as Genesis just uses the default WordPress comments form, there is a sea of WordPress tutorials written already with how to do what you are wanting to do.

For example, for the first question the answer is here. Scroll down to the part titled "Remove Website URL From Comment Form"

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[davidroccato]

Hi David, thank you for your reply.

I've looked around and I've found few things but they are not all exaclty and I'd like to compact them in just one function. But I don't feel to do any test without being more or less sure before. This is what I've found.

1) This will remove the comment notes and do other things

//***Customize The Comment Form**/
add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'bourncreative_custom_comment_form' );
function bourncreative_custom_comment_form($fields) {
	$fields['comment_notes_before'] = ''; //Removes Email Privacy Notice
    $fields['title_reply'] = __( 'Share Your Comments & Feedback:', 'customtheme' ); //Changes The Form Headline
	$fields['label_submit'] = __( 'Share My Comment', 'customtheme' ); //Changes The Submit Button Text
	$fields['comment_notes_after'] = ''; //Removes Form Allowed Tags Box
    return $fields;
}

2) This will remove the URL

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

3) This is the one you gave me that do the same above but in another way.

add_filter( 'comment_form_default_fields', 'remove_comment_author_website_url_field' );
function remove_comment_author_website_url_field( $fields ) {

if ( isset( $fields['url'] ) )
unset( $fields['url'] );

if ( isset( $fields['fields']['url'] ) )
unset( $fields['fields']['url'] );

return $fields;
}

Is the point 2 enough? Can I just add the line  unset($fields['url']); to the first function?

Also, in the first function maybe I should replace with: comment_form_default_fields

4) If the above is correct, what I miss is just how to convert in plain text the message.

I've seen that there is the option $fields ['format'] = 'xhtml'; but I don't know if this make sense and if I can change it in just simple text.

Thank you very much,
Davide

[davidroccato]

Anyone? I'm quite sure the answer is not too far from here but I would prefer to get closer before doing some test. This weekend I'll probably have more time to test everything.

Thanks a lot.

[davidroccato]

Update.

I tried and at the end the only codes that worked were the ones David (thanks a lot) gave me from Brad. The others simply break the site, even the ones written from studiopress here: http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/comments/

I could fix the point 1 and 2 but I can't find anything for converting the messages in plain text.

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