Is there an easy way to remove email box from comments in WP?

Does anyone know of an easy way to remove the email box from comments in Wordpress? I would also like to add a captcha, since this might increase the likelihood of spam, but that is another topic

Thanks!

 

Try usind the askimet plugin for the spam... TO remove teh email box you have to edit the comments.php page from the admin panel or you can edit it with your FTP client.

 

For the default Wordpress theme, it's this code in comments.php

<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" <?php if ($req) echo "aria-required='true'"; ?> />
<label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>

Code (markup):

It may be a bit different in your theme but you should be able to spot it.
Removing it will get rid of the email field, provided you don't have popup comments activated.

 

cool, thanks guys. I found a setting in the Admin panel (under Disscusion) so that emails were no longer required so it is no biggie now. Thanks!