I want to Completely Remove Comment Field

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  publicstuffblog · Member · May 11, 2012 at 8:11 pm

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  Hi Everyone,

  I want to completely remove the comment field from my wordpress blog. Does anyone know how to do this?

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2012 at 8:19 pm

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  Go to settings > discussion and disallow commenting. That will disable commenting and remove the comment boxes from all future pages and posts.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  Next, you will have to bulk edit any existing pages and posts and turn comments off for those.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

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  publicstuffblog · Member · May 11, 2012 at 8:23 pm

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  Thank you but I don’t see a disallow commenting option under the discussion tab. Where else could this be?

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2012 at 8:25 pm

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  It is near the top under default article settings: “Allow people to post comments on new articles” – deselect that and save your changes.

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  publicstuffblog · Member · May 11, 2012 at 8:26 pm

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  No Matter what I do, I still see a “Leave a Reply” comment box at the footer.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2012 at 8:29 pm

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  You have to complete both steps I’ve outlined. The change at settings > discussion, as I stated is only for future pages and posts.

  All existing pages and posts must be bulk edited and the comments turned off for them.

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  publicstuffblog · Member · May 11, 2012 at 8:30 pm

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  Thanks, but I did that, I deselected that option and even went and turned off the comment option for the posts and pages, but the leave a reply comment is still showing.

  Is there an actual wordpress support email or contact I can reach out to directly? It looks like that support option is unavailable while they’re upgrading stuff.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2012 at 8:37 pm

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  I’m not sure what you are doing, but I just accomplished this with the two steps I outlined above in Triton Lite on my test blog without issue.

  I’ll tag this for staff attention and perhaps they will go into your blog and do it for you.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 11, 2012 at 9:04 pm

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  Comments are still enabled on the individual post.

  Try following this guide to disable comments on specific posts: http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 11, 2012 at 9:05 pm

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  Just adding a note, the method provided by thesacredpath will still work. His is the bulk editing method, and the method I linked to is for single posts.