How to turn off requiring name and email for comments on mobile?

• 

  torkins · Member · Jun 20, 2013 at 9:55 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I went to settings to turn off the setting so that people can leave comments without entering their name and email. However, it still makes them do this when using a cell phone. How do I fix this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  raincoaster · Member · Jun 20, 2013 at 10:06 pm

  • Copy link

  Interesting. That sounds like something staff will have to look at, UNLESS it’s just a caching issue.

• 

  timethief · Member · Jun 20, 2013 at 10:08 pm

  • Copy link

  This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  Discussion Settings
  Other comment settings
  _Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
  _Users must be registered and logged in to comment

  Note that the prompt to submit and email address and a website URL will still appear, but providing an email address and logging in are not required, and you cannot change this so the prompt does not appear.

  You can post instructions for your visitors in a text widget if you wish to set up anonymous commenting. That’s easy to do. You copy and paste this into a text widget:

  Readers: Note that the email address and logging in prompts do appear for comments on this blog, but providing an email address and logging in are not required.

  P.S. Do be sure to set up full comment moderation ie. “An administrator must always approve the comment” because anonymous commenting is bound to increase the amount of spam your blog will receive.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

• 

  raincoaster · Member · Jun 20, 2013 at 10:10 pm

  • Copy link

  So the prompts appear even though they do not have to be filled out? That does sound like something that needs to be fixed.

• 

  designsimply · Member · Jun 21, 2013 at 2:21 am

  • Copy link

  So the prompts appear even though they do not have to be filled out? That does sound like something that needs to be fixed.

  The setting just changes whether the prompts are required fields or not, it doesn’t remove them. They’re still there because they are still optional for people to fill out if they want to.