Disable All Comments
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Settings page – Quick Setup with the master switch and the classic options.
Disable All Comments gives you full control over comments in WordPress. Switch them off everywhere with a single master switch, or choose exactly which post types, screens and features to disable. Keeping comments? Use the built-in anti-spam and form options instead.
Made by SEOS Themes – high quality, HTML5, responsive and mobile friendly WordPress themes.
One-click master switch
- Disable ALL comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on the whole site
Classic options (from version 1.x)
- Hide all comments
- Disable support for comments and trackbacks in post types
- Disable comments on attachments
- Close comments on the front-end
- Hide existing comments
- Remove the Comments page from the admin menu
- Remove comments from pages / posts
- Redirect users who try to open the Comments page
- Remove the Recent Comments dashboard box
- Remove comment links from the admin bar
New in 2.0
- Disable comments per post type (posts, pages, media, WooCommerce products, any custom post type)
- Automatically close comments on posts older than X days
- Remove the comments section from themes (“Comments are closed” text disappears) – also in block themes
- Custom message instead of the comments section
- Extended CSS hiding of all comment areas
- Hide comment counts and “Leave a comment” links
- Remove comment-reply.js
- Disable Gravatars / avatars
- Remove links from comment author names
- Remove Settings Discussion page
- Remove comment columns, Discussion meta boxes, Recent Comments widget
- Remove all comment blocks from the block editor (Gutenberg)
- Option to keep comment screens for administrators
- Disable the comments REST API endpoints
- Disable comment RSS feeds
- Disable comment and pingback methods in XML-RPC
- Disable pingbacks/trackbacks, self-pingbacks, X-Pingback header
- Invisible honeypot anti-spam
- Only logged-in users can comment
- Minimum / maximum comment length
- No clickable links and no HTML in comments
- Remove the Website and cookies fields from the comment form
- Custom form title, submit button text and comment policy note
- Tools: close/open comments on all existing posts, delete spam/pending/trash/pingbacks/all comments
- Export / import / reset settings
- Comment statistics