Hide “Comments Off”

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  mmagocs · Member · Aug 11, 2010 at 6:34 am

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  Hi-

  My blog: http://eatyourcolors.wordpress.com/

  I’d like to have comments be an option sometimes, but not all the time. Right now, this is my CSS code:

  p.tagged {
  display:none;
  }

  p.num_comments {
  background:none;
  }

  And as you can see in the blog, when I have comments turned off, you see the words “Comments Off”. How can I hide these words for the posts that have comments turned off but leave the “Leave a Comment” words visible for when comments are turned on for other posts?

  Thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 11, 2010 at 8:40 am

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  As far as I can see, you cannot via CSS. It is all or nothing unless the one remaining CSS guru has an idea, and I haven’t seen him in the forums for a day or two (hallluke).

  One way to get the “comments off” to disappear though is to disallow trackbacks/pingbacks under settings > discussion. Since trackbacks/pingbacks are considered a comment, as long as they are allowed, the “comments off” will appear on your blog. Try disabling it and then force refresh a page and see if it disappears.

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  mmagocs · Member · Aug 11, 2010 at 10:43 pm

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  Thanks, thesacredpath….the trackback thing didn’t work. I’ll probably just leave comments off for now until I figure out how to pick and choose.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 11, 2010 at 10:56 pm

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  Sorry it didn’t work. I seem to remember one of the theme team here saying that if it were turned off, that the “comments off” would disappear. Obviously I am mis-remembering, or perhaps it does not work with all themes.

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  hallluke · Member · Aug 12, 2010 at 12:38 am

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  It should be fairly easy in the Pressrow theme as comment-disabled posts include a span tag while comment-enabled ones just have a link. Try this:

  p.num_comments span {display:none;}