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Turn Comments Off

by Happy Prime

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Description

Activate this plugin to immediately remove all comment functionality from WordPress.

  • Stop comments and pingbacks on all existing and future content.
  • Remove “Discussion” from Settings in the admin menu.
  • Remove “Comments” from the admin menu.
  • Remove the comments bubble from the admin bar.
  • Remove “Recent Comments” from the site activity dashboard widget.
  • Remove the comments feed link.
  • Unregister all core comment blocks in the editor.
  • Remove “Manage Comments” from My Sites on multisite. (If network activated.)

No configuration necessary (or available).

If you find something we missed, please let us know!

Works. No Ads, settings or upgrades

By tom.andersen on May 27, 2025

Written by the top notch people at happy prime. "co-owner and lead developer at Happy Prime, has been building on the web for 30 years. He’s a WordPress core developer, has contributed to the last 28 major releases of WordPress..." etc.

Does just exactly that

By 3cstudio on August 1, 2023

No more reference whatsoever to the Comments section in the admin area... no Settings to fiddle with -- just results (or lack thereof). Comments have been a haven for straight crap for a long time anyway. Good riddance!

2.0.0

  • Fix a fatal PHP error when a comment query requests a count.
  • Note: If you had manually removed our comments_pre_query filter for any reason,
    (you likely weren’t), you’ll need to adjust your code to account for the new
    namespaced function.
  • Update development dependencies.

1.3.2

  • No functional changes.
  • Update development dependencies.
  • Confirm WordPress 6.6 support.

1.3.1

  • No functional changes.
  • Replace @wordpress/scripts dependency with leaner configuration.
  • Confirm WordPress 6.5 support.

1.3.0

  • Remove “Manage Comments” from site menus under My Sites on multisite.
  • Confirm WordPress 6.4 support.
  • Update wordpress/scripts dependency to 26.15.0.
  • Improve linting configuration.

1.2.1

  • No functional changes, only custodial.
  • Confirm WordPress 6.2 support.
  • Update wordpress/scripts dependency to 26.1.0.
  • Improve linting configuration.

1.2.0

  • Update the list of blocks unregistered to include latest from Gutenberg and WordPress.
  • Update wordpress/scripts to 24.6.0.
  • Refactor how the list of blocks is managed to make future maintenance easier. Props @huubl.
  • Only unregister blocks that are registered. Props @huubl.

1.1.1

  • Unregister core comment blocks in the editor.

1.0.2

  • Add automated GitHub deployments to wp.org.

1.0.1

  • Add PHP namespace.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.
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