How to remove url field from WordPress comment box

Open WordPress as admin and navigate to plugins. Activate the Disable/Hide Comment URL plugin after installing it. The built-in WordPress comment form will no longer have the website url box once the plugin is activated. This ought to assist you in decreasing spam comments. We find that a significant portion of spam comments are posted with the express purpose of obtaining backlinks. Such spammers would not consider your blog for submitting spam comments if the website url field was removed.

You might have approved comments in the past. Those comments must be having website url linked to the name (usually a keyword). If you want to keep the comments and remove the website url linked to the name (comment submitters name), install and activate the plugin Disable Comment Author Links. This plugin would strip the urls from all the approved comments. This plugin will not remove the url posted in comment area.

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