How to remove firstname, lastname validation (magento 1.9)

Question

I want only Email, and Password field in registration form (persistent/customer/form/register)

I have also removed rest of the fields.

Still required validation for Firstname and Lastname is still automatically popping up.

Now how to remove these validation for register page.

Answer 1

You need to change the database value for this attribute

Table name : eav_attribute In this table find attribute_code as firstname and change the value of is_required to 0. Do same for lastname.