I invested a good deal of time today customizing a comment form in a BuddyPress child theme. My goals were to:
- Add a new field called, “Organization”
- Remove the “URL” field
- Remove the “Comment” text that appears above the corresponding textarea
The biggest learning for me was figuring out how comment_form, comments_template, and wp_list_comments fit together.
I learned a lot from Otto’s article on the subject, but that article didn’t address everything I needed to accomplish. The following is what I did to accomplish the aforementioned goals.
In functions.php, I have the following:
// Change "Website" to "Organization" on the comment form.
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields','add_organization_to_comments');
function add_organization_to_comments($fields) {
// New fields
$fields['organization'] = '';
$fields['author'] = ' ' . ( $req ? '*' : '' ) .
'
';
// Remove unwanted default fields
unset($fields['url']);
return $fields;
}
// save extra fields in database
add_action( 'comment_post', 'save_comment' );
function save_comment($comment_id)
{
add_comment_meta( $comment_id, 'organization', esc_attr($_POST['organization']), true );
}
';
$fields['email'] = 'That’s it!
Tomorrow I will share how I displayed the “organization” field in the “comments” panel of the WordPress admin screen.
ttfn.
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Danger Will Robinson!
This code leaves your site open to a XSS attack through the comments form. I highly recommend filtering the POSTed organization field.
@Otto – Thanks for the heads-up there!
All, I have incorporated Otto’s suggestion and added the esc_attr() function to the POSTs in the code above.