Remove "Leave a Comment" text and box

• 

  coverstorygray12 · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 11:01 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I was able to remove the comments function from my new “Adventure Journal” theme site, but for some reason the text and broken link “Leave a Comment” still appear on some pages (notably, at the bottom of my RSVP page: http://stivershamblen.com/rsvp). Is there any code I can use to remove this? Or perhaps cover it up?

  I’m also looking for CSS code to change the appearance of my RSVP form — unbold the field headings and make some of the text boxes smaller, for example.

  Help?

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

• 

  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 11:05 pm

  • Copy link

  That’s not a CSS issue.

  Comments on all pages and posts on every WordPress blog are enabled by default so that means you disabled them on the posts you refer to.

  This page > Settings > Discussion
  Discussion settings is where you set up defaults for comments.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  We can also override the default settings and enable or disable future comments on any individual post or page.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/

  Note: By default, new blogs on WordPress.com will have the Discussion hidden. You can reveal it by clicking on Screen Options http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ on the top right corner of your Admin page, and checking the box that says Discussion so the module is included. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules

• 

  coverstorygray12 · Member · Oct 16, 2012 at 11:13 pm

  • Copy link

  I’ve unchecked every box on the Discussion page and the words “Leave a comment” still appear on my RSVP page.

  http://stivershamblen.com/rsvp/

  I’ve read elsewhere (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/leave-a-comment-link-wont-disappear) that this is a glitch with WordPress that needs to be corrected through the PHP file, but I don’t know how to access and change that, so I am hoping to find a CSS solution.

• 

  justpi · Member · Oct 17, 2012 at 1:59 pm

  • Copy link

  1) Don’t read “elsewhere”. The wordpress.ORG forum is for self-hosted blogs: different software, different possibilities and restrictions, different problems and solutions.

  2) Timethief linked to the relevant Support doc: you probably didn’t read it carefully enough. The changes you make in Settings > Discussion become your new defaults, i.e. they apply to posts/pages you create after you’ve made those changes: they don’t apply to already published posts/pages. To disable commenting on an already published page such as the one you linked to, go to Pages > All Pages, hover over the page title, click Quick Edit, uncheck the option ” Allow Comments”, click Update.

• 

  theterminaldave · Member · Oct 31, 2012 at 10:43 pm

  • Copy link

  Justpi THANK YOU…! ive been looking for that solution for days, can’t believe it was that easy…