How to Remove Website URL Field From Genesis Theme Comment Form

Website URL field in wordpress comment form can be a pain for blog owner. Spammer always use the field to drop the shady links that useless or can be harmful to readers. Genesis theme uses its own function to customize comment form. To remove the URl field, we have add filter to remove the field.

The steps:

Go to Genesis child theme directory under wp-content/themes
Download functions.php file

Alter the file by adding the following lines of code at the bottom:

add_filter( 'genesis_comment_form_args', 'url_filtered' );
add_filter( 'comment_form_default_fields', 'url_filtered' );

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

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

	return $fields;
}