Title: comment fields, remove required, allow anonymous
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# comment fields, remove required, allow anonymous

 *  [tronicscribe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tronicscribe/)
 * (@tronicscribe)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-fields-remove-required-allow-anonymous/)
 * Is there a way to make the text fields in the comments.php file non required?
   I thought I found the php next to each required field that causes the error page
   if you do not fill in a required field, but I removed that php and it still brings
   the user to the error page if they don’t fill one in.
 * Is there a way to allow for no name, and no email to be filled in, and wordpress
   will just set their name as guest or anonymous so that any visitor can post a
   comment if they don’t want to fill in their info?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-fields-remove-required-allow-anonymous/#post-1553916)
 * Settings/Discussion. Untick “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail”.
 *  Thread Starter [tronicscribe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tronicscribe/)
 * (@tronicscribe)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-fields-remove-required-allow-anonymous/#post-1554084)
 * wow… thanks. I’ve been using wordpress since version 1.5 lol.

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