wpDiscuz comment forms can be found and managed in Dashboard > wpDiscuz > Forms admin page. By default, there is one comment form with “Default Form” title. Comment form editing screen consists of the Comment Form Settings area and Comment Form Builder section. In this documentation we’ll go through all tools of comment form builder. The “Comment Form Settings” is described in the previous article.

Comment Form rows and cols

The comment text field (rich editor) is located on top of the form. Other fields are located in two columns below. You can drag and drop comment fields to change orders or move to other columns. Using the [Add Row] button you can add new rows to this form. All rows are also drag-able. By default, new rows are created with one column. Using the “two cols” [ | ] button you can change it to two columns. Using the delete button you can delete the row.

Comment Form Fields

Once you finished with comment layout you can start adding custom comment fields. Click on [+] button, located at the bottom of each column to start creating custom field. Then click on preferred “field type” button in the pop-up window.

 

As an example we use “Text” field for creating a “Company” custom field. For the “Text” field type you should configure the following fields:

• Field Name: This is the field placeholder or label. It depends on the field type.
• Field Description: this is a field specific short description or some rule related to inserted information.If the Description field is filled, you’ll see (?) icon on the right side of this field. This icon displays the description text in a tooltip when user moves mouse over this icon.
• Field icon: Font Awesome icon class. You can find all icons here or search using the built-in icon picker.
• Field is required
• Display on reply form: You can choose whether display this custom field on reply form.
• Display on comment: You can choose whether display submitted data of this field on comment or not.

For developers, there is an advanced option to manage custom comment field key. This key is used to get submitted data and save in database (wp_commentmeta table).

Once all fields are configured, click on [Add to Form] button and put it in comment form. Drag and drop the field to your preferred location (row, col). We put it after all fields in the left column. Scroll up and click on [Update] button to save form settings.

Edit and Delete fields

Click on the right green Pencil icon of each field to edit field settings. And use the red Basket icon to delete custom fields.

Comment Form Default Fields

You cannot delete the default fields (name, email, website, reCAPTCHA, submit). The Name and Email fields can be set not-required using the according option. The Website field can be hidden by unchecking the “Enable” option. The reCAPTCHA field can be managed in Dashboard > wpDiscuz > Settings > reCAPTCHA admin page.

 

Note: Custom fields “edit” and “delete” actions cannot be undone. All custom fields are stored in database based on custom field meta key set in custom field advanced settings. If you remove a custom field, it’ll also remove field data on website comments (front-end). The only way to reverting those back deleted fields is creating an identical custom field with the same custom field meta key.