Turn Comments Off

Turn comments off everywhere in WordPress.

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).

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Changelog

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.