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Thanks again, but my point was that it doesn’t seem to matter what pattern I use, it doesn’t seem to have any effect. I’m not sure why, but it appears that I’ll have to use something build into WordPress to validate the URL. I’m not too worried about what URL people use because I should be able to adjust the embed for that, but I do want to know that it’s a URL at least.

Awesome, thanks for the help, I’m surprised that I missed that in the codex; guess I was too focused on removing the comment textarea altogether. Now the only problem I have is how to validate the URL. I thought I could use the input pattern below, but for some reason, it doesn’t appear to be working. If anyone has an idea why it isn’t working I would appreciate it.

$comments_args = array(
    // redefine your own textarea (the comment body)
    'comment_field' => '<p class="comment-form-comment"><label for="comment">' . _x( 'Video URL', 'noun' ) . '</label><input type="url" id="comment" name="comment" placeholder="https://youtu.be/example" pattern="https?://.+" required aria-required="true"></input></p>',
);

comment_form( $comments_args );

I haven’t spent a ton of time on this project lately, but I have done some testing and continue to get “ERROR: please type a comment.” Thanks for the help and I could be missing something, but so far I haven’t had any luck with that code. I don’t think it’s the theme I’m using because I just created a Twenty Fourteen child theme for this website. I’m hoping to work on this through the holiday season so I’d still appreciate any help I can get.