Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. Comments can be disabled according to post type. Multisite friendly.
Enable/Disable comments on any WordPress content (Pages, Posts, or Media) to stop spammers. WP-CLI, XML-RPC & REST-API support to stop spam comments.
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Override all comments-related settings throughout your website & manage your comments just the way you want.
Choose which posts, pages or media should allow comments from site visitors & configure Disable Comments accordingly
Have multiple websites? Get rid of irrelevant comments on the entire network using Disable Comments Plugin
Please delete any existing comments on your site before applying this setting, otherwise (depending on your theme) those comments may still be displayed to visitors. You can use the Delete Comments tool to delete any existing comments on your site.
AMAZING USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE
Easily configure your comment-related settings with an amazing and attractive app-like user interface.
WP-CLI COMMANDS TO DISABLE COMMENTS
Use WP-CLI control for comment-related settings to disable comments on posts, pages, attachments or everywhere on your website.
GET STARTED WITH QUICK SETUP WIZARD
Use the quick setup wizard after activating the plugin to instantly configure comment-related settings for your WordPress website.
DISABLE COMMENTS ON DOCS
Instantly disable comments on your documentation pages or WordPress knowledge base with a single click.
DELETE CERTAIN COMMENT TYPE(S)
Permanently delete certain comment types from your WordPress website including WooCommerce product reviews as well as generic comments.
DISABLE COMMENTS VIA XML-RPC And REST API
Block any comments made on your WordPress website via XML-RPC specification and REST API.
Important note: Use this plugin if you don’t want comments at all on your site (or on certain post types). Don’t use it if you want to selectively disable comments on individual posts – WordPress lets you do that anyway. If you don’t know how to disable comments on individual posts, there are instructions in the FAQ.
If you come across any bugs or have suggestions, please use the plugin support forum. I can’t fix it if I don’t know it’s broken! Please check the FAQ for common issues.
Want to contribute? Here’s the GitHub development repository.
A must-use version of the plugin is also available.
Some of the plugin’s behavior can be modified by site administrators and plugin/theme developers through code:
Define DISABLE_COMMENTS_REMOVE_COMMENTS_TEMPLATE
and set it to false
to prevent the plugin from replacing the theme’s comment template with an empty one.
Define DISABLE_COMMENTS_ALLOW_DISCUSSION_SETTINGS
and set it to true
to prevent the plugin from hiding the Discussion settings page.
These definitions can be made either in your main wp-config.php
or in your theme’s functions.php
file.
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directoryThis is because your theme is not checking the comment status of posts in the correct way.
You may like to point your theme’s author to this explanation of what they are doing wrong, and how to fix it.
The plugin tries its very best to hide this (and any other comment-related) messages.
If you still see the message, then it means your theme is overriding this behaviour, and you will have to edit its files manually to remove it. Two common approaches are to either delete or comment out the relevant lines in wp-content/your-theme/comments.php
, or to add a declaration to wp-content/your-theme/style.css
that hides the message from your visitors. In either case, make you you know what you are doing!
Go to the edit page for the post you want to disable comments on. Scroll down to the “Discussion” box, where you will find the comment options for that post. If you don’t see a “Discussion” box, then click on “Screen Options” at the top of your screen, and make sure the “Discussion” checkbox is checked.
You can also bulk-edit the comment status of multiple posts from the posts screen.
Go to the tools page for the Disable Comments plugin and utlize the Delete Comments tool to delete all comments or according to the specified post types from your database.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
This will be maintained from August 19, 2020 – @asif2bd
DISABLE_COMMENTS_ALLOW_DISCUSSION_SETTINGS
configuration.disable_comments_allow_persistent_mode
filter. Define DISABLE_COMMENTS_ALLOW_PERSISTENT_MODE
instead.