For quite some time I thought WordPress wasn’t setting the comment cookies properly, because when I made comments the fields wouldn’t remain populated after I commented. I finally realized that if you’re logged in, you don’t have to worry about the fields at all because it pulls the name, e-mail address and URL from the user profile. This wasn’t very intuitive and the values still could have been filled in to the fields, but I realized that my theme just needed to exclude the name, e-mail and URL field if the user was logged in.

I believe there are lots of themes out there that would benefit from this change.

To update a theme, just use the conditional provided at the bottom of the get_currentuserinfo() page on the WordPress Codex.

Here’s what I added to my theme.

<?php if ('' == $user_ID) { ?>

. . . (The Name, E-mail and URL fields)

<?php } ?>