Disable Comments

disable-comments · By WPDeveloper
1M+ installs 4.7 (280) Updated 2 weeks ago v2.9.0 WP 5.0–7.0.5 PHP 7.0+

Impact score

Footprint Score across the two most representative contexts.

Homepage Score

Impact measured on the public homepage

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v2.7.0 · 8 scans
Consolidated score over 90 days · 1 versions
Not enough data to publish the grade (15 scans min, currently 8).
Time
2 ms
Memory
0.0 MB
SQL
+1
Assets
0
HTTP ext.
0

Admin Score

Impact measured in the WordPress admin

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v2.8.0 · 3 scans
Consolidated score over 90 days · 2 versions
Not enough data to publish the grade (15 scans min, currently 3).
Time
0 ms
Memory
0.0 MB
SQL
+1
Assets
1
HTTP ext.
0

About

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.

THIS PLUGIN IS NOW MAINTAINED BY THE TEAM WPDeveloper.

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For more information about features, FAQs, and documentation, check out our website at Disable Comments

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The JavaScript and CSS shipped in assets/ are compiled with Grunt and Babel from uncompiled sources that are not included in the plugin zip: JavaScript in src/ and Sass in assets/scss/.

Both the sources and the build configuration live in the GitHub development repository. To build them yourself:

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Screenshots

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Setting Screen for Disable Comments
Setting Screen for Disable Comments
Delete Comments under Tools menu.
Delete Comments under Tools menu.
Multisite Network support
Multisite Network support

Per-version history

Show per-version detail (2 versions)

How the plugin evolves version by version.

Version Homepage Admin Last scan
v2.8.0 1 scan 1 month ago
v2.7.0 8 scans 2 scans 1 month ago

Scan history

Show individual scan log (11 scans)

Date Version Context Score Grade Time Memory
1 month ago v2.8.0 Admin 100/100 A 0 ms 0.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Admin 95/100 A 188 ms 2.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Admin 100/100 A 0 ms 0.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Homepage 100/100 A 0 ms 0.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Homepage 100/100 A 0 ms 2.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Homepage 95/100 A 0 ms 0.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Homepage 97/100 A 57 ms 2.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Homepage 100/100 A 0 ms 0.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Homepage 100/100 A 31 ms 0.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Homepage 99/100 A 31 ms 0.0 MB
1 month ago v2.7.0 Homepage 100/100 A 3 ms 0.0 MB