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Disable Comments WordPress 3.1 Tutorial

Last updated on February 18, 2017
Posted on March 9, 2011

Disable Comments WordPress — Why some of us want to disable comments box

Inspired from my older post: wordpress change “Home” page, I write this simple “disable comments wordpress” post, which uses WP latest version, version 3.1, 2011.

In that post, actually one of my commenters Lilli, wanted to have a page where she wants to make it look like a static website, non blog wordpress website.

One small glitch, she found, she still found the comment box under the page.

If you want to make a business website or a more professional static look of a wordpress site, you probably do not want this box appear below your page or post content.

This box is actually typical blog layout which lets people giving feedback, review, or questions to the associated content, that’s one of many typical blog features.

Thanks to WP’s flexibility, you can turn on and off this box if you do not want them to appear.

Though the disable comments wordpress method is very simple, some newbie bloggers who learn wordpress are overwhelmed with so many buttons and links in their dashboards, and some functionalities are often unseen.

Disable Comments WordPress 3.1 — The result varies due to the themes

In this disable comments wordpress tutorial post, we are going to use Twenty Ten theme, the default wordpress 3.1 theme.

As written in the heading title above, the result of getting rid of comment box really depends on your theme.

The possibilities, are the box will be gone, and no notifications, or there would be a small notification, like “comments are closed” or similar short message.

This is due to the difference code every themes has. Like in Twenty Ten, you would not see any message or notes.

If it is disabled, it will show blank clean layout. In Thesis theme, you would see, “comments are closed” or similar note, unfortunately, I can’t remember the message exactly.

But what great from Thesis is, you can disable that short message with Thesis options, only ticking whether you want to display or hide that message.

Now, I am only familiar with those two themes, I am not familiar with other free or any other themes.

If you try this disable comments wordpress simple tutorial, and can’t get the expected result, I recommend you contact the theme’s designer, because he is the one who wrote the codes. (related post: Why premium wordpress themes?).

Disable Comments WordPress 3.1 Tutorial

So now, we will get rid of comments box in wordpress, do not be afraid, disable comments wordpress post is very simple step..

I even do not make any disable comments wordpress video tutorials, because its so easy and simple, so I thought it wasn’t worth to make a screencast.

Let’s get this disable comments wordpress tutorial started.

1. I assume you are already logged in to the admin page, and already created the posts or pages, if you haven’t, create one. If you have, just click the post or page, and then “edit”.

2. Now, you should be in the post or page..

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3. If you install wordpress 3.1 this option is hidden by default.

You have to go to the page or post, on the top right, find “screen options”, see image,

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Screen options

Tick, discussion, or other options which you want to display.

4. Now, scroll your page down, you should see many options below the post or page’s box, such as, excerpt (related post: All in One SEO configuration), send trackbacks, custom fields, Discussion and Author.

Find on “Discussion”.

5. Expand the tab if it is not opened.

6. You will see: Allow comments and Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page options.

7. To disable the comments box wordpress, untick both of them.

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Untick the tick boxes under "Discussion"

 

8. Click update or publish button.

9. Refresh your page.

You will be able to get rid or disable comments wordpress box using Twenty Ten theme by following this simple disable comments wordpress post.

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Comments

  1. Shiva @ Money Making Ideas says

    March 10, 2011 at 11:47 am

    Hi Kimi, I always use that option to disable comments specially on posts where I share coupon codes (since most of the comments are only for backlinks in that kind of posts). None the less, it is a nice simple tutorial for those who do not know how to do it.

    • Kimi says

      March 11, 2011 at 7:29 am

      Hi Shiva @ Money Making Ideas

      Yes, almost the same here, I always disable comments on my static page, like about me, but I forgot to do it after switching my theme last time..lol

      Thanks for visiting 🙂

      Have a good weekend,

      Kimi

  2. Roberto says

    March 13, 2011 at 1:41 am

    Hi Kimi,

    I just installed WordPress 3.1.
    Haven’t done any fancy stuff configuration or code wise.
    Using just the defaults straight from the installation.
    I have not altered any code.

    Yet. I am not getting the options mentioned in steps 3 to 6 below a post or page.

    In previous versions of WordPress (2.9 and lower) these options were/are available.

    Do you know where the problem may lie?

    • Kimi says

      March 13, 2011 at 8:28 am

      Hi Roberto,

      If it is really new installed blog, I recommend you install it again, but manually, here is a quick link: https://www.wpvidz.com/wordpress-3-1-tutorial-2011-video-to-install-wordpress-3-1/
      More clearer video: https://www.wpvidz.com/installing-wordpress-3-0-tutorial/

      This missing options of a new installed blogs can be caused by many things, example, not completed transferred files if you use FTP, or if with Fantastico, the installation process may also not 100% succeed.

      I always install mine manually, downloading fresh files from wordpress.org and upload in cPanel.

      I hope this will solve your problem

      Kimi.

  3. Roberto says

    March 13, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Hi Kimi,

    Thanks for your quick respons.

    I think I will do just that – reïnstall.

    Note: I always install manually as well.

    Thanks
    Roberto

    • Kimi says

      March 13, 2011 at 8:16 pm

      Hi Roberto!

      Thanks to you, because I re-checked again, and you are right, those options are hidden by default in wordpress 3.1, I wonder why, because this confuses newbies like us.

      So I have research in wordpress.org site, and made the video, hopefully this can help people.

      I have never realized this, because my wordpress 3.1 is from upgrading the older version, never installed wp 3.1 fresh.

      Thanks Roberto!

      • Roberto says

        March 13, 2011 at 9:41 pm

        Hi Kimi,

        I have watched your install tutorial video.
        It is good.

        The secret is under “screen options” and checking the boxes for “discussion” and “comments”.

        Thanks again
        Roberto

        • Kimi says

          March 14, 2011 at 7:46 am

          Yes Roberto,

          I updated the post again though. I re-installed wp 3.1 again and in fact we don’t need the code, unless we want post revision to be displayed, but we mostly don’t use it.

          Thanks.

  4. Khairul Fadhli says

    March 14, 2011 at 7:06 am

    Hi!

    Chanced upon your blog as I was looking around on how to delete wordpress comments. Didn’t realised it was hidden in WordPress 3.1! Haha! so when one of my students asked me, i gave her the old tutorial which is, sadly wrong. 🙁

    SO had to relearn again. However, I didn’t add the code as u mentioned in your video tutorial, but when I go to ‘screen options’ and select the comments and all, it did appear.

    Mind telling me what the code’s for? Thanks and have a great week!

    • Kimi says

      March 14, 2011 at 7:51 am

      Hi Khairul!

      I just updated the post after I re-installed a wp3.1 again in my local machine.

      Yes, we don’t need to add any additional codes unless we want to display “post revision” or other options.

      By clicking the screenoptions, it is enough.

      Thanks for the great catch, I updated the post!

      Thanks,

      Kimi.

  5. Peter Rodrick says

    March 14, 2011 at 10:22 am

    Was starting to wonder what was going on with my site until I read this post. I just spent 30 minutes trying to figure out what the tick box to hide comments had vanished.
    Thanks!

    • Kimi says

      March 14, 2011 at 2:33 pm

      Hi Peter,

      Actually, I did not notice this change even though my blog uses wp3.1 but it is from updating, so the older setting is saved in database.

      Till Roberto above, said, he did not see the options, and then I re-checked again, it is hidden 🙂

      I don’t understand why it is hidden by default though, because those options have been very useful to us.

      Thank you Peter, for leaving a message.

      Kimi.

  6. Julie says

    March 16, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    Am I completely missing something? How do I hide comments on PAGES? I have 3.1 and Thesis.

    • Kimi says

      March 18, 2011 at 4:14 pm

      Hi Julie,

      Under page box area, do you have “discussion” tab? where you can disable comments or trackbacks.

      If not, please check on screen options.

      I help this post helps.

      • Julie says

        March 18, 2011 at 4:59 pm

        No, it is strange, it us not under discussions as it used to be and there is no screen options as there used to be! Maybe with the update.

  7. Lew says

    March 22, 2011 at 6:21 am

    Thanks so much for this info. I was going nuts trying to figure it out.

    Yew rawk!

  8. waqas says

    March 23, 2011 at 7:15 am

    Thanks very much , its help me lot .

  9. hmplace says

    March 27, 2011 at 6:23 am

    The problem I’m having with WordPress 3.1 is that comments are disabled on my pages, even though the comment box is checked. Any ideas on how to fix this? Also, for those pages where the comment box is not checked, there is a ‘comment closed’ on the page. How do I get rid of this?

    • Kimi says

      March 28, 2011 at 8:35 pm

      Hi hmplace,

      Did you try the default theme, to see if it works with default theme.

      If it works, then the theme you are using has some different codes.

      If it does not work, it maybe the plugins, disable all plugins one by one and then try it.

      I hope this helps

  10. ffarr says

    April 1, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    Hi Kimi, how to disable the comments in the Whole blog using 3.1?

    • Kimi says

      April 4, 2011 at 6:03 pm

      Hi ffarr,

      In discussion setting, and tick off “Allow people to post comments on new articles ”

      Hope this helps..

  11. Keenan says

    April 2, 2011 at 5:47 am

    If you just installed 3.1 the Jetpack banner is hiding the screen options tab. Go to plugins on left panel an deactivate the Jetpack plugin. Once you’ve done so, the screen options and help tabs will appear as in Step 3 above.

    Was driving me crazy.

  12. Donovan Crow says

    April 6, 2011 at 3:48 am

    Brilliant!
    this was very helpful
    sometimes its best no to rely on a plugin for everything as it may clash with the core functions of WordPress.

    I will surely share this with others.

  13. Emily says

    April 6, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    Thank you so much for this tutorial! I looked at a bunch of other tutorials that said I needed to edit the php code, but they were all outdated. I’m so glad I found this one, very helpful. (:

  14. Sami says

    April 8, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    Thanks, this helped a lot!

  15. Larry Leveen says

    April 11, 2011 at 5:24 am

    Wow, none of the tips above worked — BUT I did find that when displaying ALL pages, Quick Edit will show the “Allow Comments” checkbox (even though the Edit scree does not, which seems crazy).

    • Melissa says

      June 9, 2011 at 10:46 pm

      THANK YOU LARRY! I’ve been searching for hours! Who knoew Quick Edit was where to go!

  16. Zippy says

    April 25, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    OMG….it’s so easy… 😀
    Thx for this tutor 🙂
    Hohohohoo….
    Easy but very help 🙂

  17. Adis says

    May 15, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Wow, your tutorials today saved me so much time. Thank you so much. I was pulling my hair out and missed something as obvious as clicking on the “screen options”. I was going nuts with CSS and functions.
    Thanks a lot for clean step by step instructions.
    Adis

  18. Tiwi says

    June 13, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    Thanks for the tutorial. It was of great help.

  19. Nicole says

    June 18, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    Thanks for this. I have been looking around to find out how to turn off comments for a post for a few days!

  20. esau says

    June 24, 2011 at 9:01 am

    This is the most aweful UI design I have ever seen. You have to toggle the option you want to turn off, to “on”, to turn it off? Now wonder there is so much confusion.

    Wasted 2 hours of my life on this.

  21. Hope says

    July 15, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    Thank you! I was looking everywhere!

  22. Bradley M. Davis says

    July 21, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    Thanks for the tip… I was wondering how to do this exact thing!!!

  23. Andres Wolf | herbalism leveling guide says

    July 22, 2011 at 12:48 am

    I believe the question would be… why would anyone want to disable the comments? They are very useful and keep the people connected and with a sense of community.

  24. Nils N. H. says

    August 6, 2011 at 12:04 am

    They kept the UI a little too uncluttered in the latest releases of WP, so I was like “where to disable comments?” Thanks for sharing!

  25. Tornar says

    August 21, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    Thanks for this post.
    Sub for me!

  26. Van Valin says

    August 30, 2011 at 6:53 am

    Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
    I really do feel WP is constantly fixing things that are not broken!
    Someone asked why would someone want to disable comments, not ever page is made for comments, hell my site is still in the working stage but even when done i don’t need people commenting on every single page, and like it or not some people modify templates because its easier to modify then code yourself even if you know a bit, my site in the end is not s much a community project, it’s a hobby, i will leave a page open for comments but having open for every page is just a bit much, and the last thing i need is negative comments when I’m still working on the site.

  27. Darrah says

    September 6, 2011 at 1:53 am

    Thank you sooo much!! I was struggling for a while to figure out how to get rid of that Comment box! I appreciate your help!!!

    • Kimi says

      September 6, 2011 at 7:26 pm

      Hi Darrah!

      Welcome to my blog

      Great you can finally figure it out, as I mentioned, I didn’t know the screen options too in the latest version of wp.

      Thanks for leaving a comment!

      Kimi

  28. saina says

    September 7, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    usefull tips.

    Realy very heartly , thank you……i tried your steps and it works perfectly, no need of help of anyone….

    thank you very very mush

  29. hanayu says

    September 11, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    thanks for the tuts, pretty helpful

  30. Aaron says

    September 19, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for.

    By the way, nice job optimizing your post for “disable comments wordpress”. I found you on Google searching for that keyword!

  31. Museum Guy says

    October 2, 2011 at 3:45 am

    Thank you so much, Larry! Been battling this issue for nearly an hour. Quick Edit does indeed do the trick.

    “Larry Leveen April 11, 2011 at 5:24 am

    Wow, none of the tips above worked — BUT I did find that when displaying ALL pages, Quick Edit will show the “Allow Comments” checkbox (even though the Edit scree does not, which seems crazy).”

  32. kelly says

    November 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    Thanks, new to WP and this stumped me. Thank GOD for people like you who make solving problems as easy as a quick google search!

  33. Yordan says

    January 10, 2012 at 10:39 am

    Very useful and helpful I learned things that I never knew before. Thank you for sharing it with us.

  34. du hoc canada says

    January 16, 2012 at 6:13 am

    Should not turn off it! We need share allthing in live.

  35. uubibi says

    June 16, 2012 at 6:16 am

    thanks a lot man

  36. Lisa says

    June 20, 2012 at 1:38 pm

    Still not working for me with Mantra 1.9.0 by Cryout Creations – I’ve tried everything, any other ideas? Thanks!

  37. DobaKung says

    June 25, 2012 at 5:22 pm

    Thanks!!!

  38. Chris says

    December 6, 2012 at 1:37 am

    I know they hide this stuff because most people are happy with the defaults. Thanks for spelling out where comment toggle is for pages. Excellent.

  39. samar says

    December 18, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    thank u so much…your steps were so helpful for me…

  40. Karen says

    January 18, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    Maybe I’m missing something, but here’s my situation.

    Using WP (3.5), theme is Twenty Ten. I recently moved an established site to a new host.

    When I go to screen options, I see Show on Screens and check boxes. Here’s what mine says and what’s checked:
    _X_ Page Attributes _X_ Featured Image _ Custom Fields _ Discussion _ Comments _ Slug _ Author _ Revisions

    So, discussion and comments are not checked, but still there’s a comments box on the home page. I’ve even tried checking them and saving and then un-checking them to no avail.

    Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

    Thanks!

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