Remove "Leave A Comment"!

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  wwerant · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 12:33 am

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  I want all comments disabled, and I want the button for “Leave A Comment” removed. I edited all the settings to disable comments, but the option still appears; it just goes nowhere. How to I remove the actual “Leave A Comment” option next to the post? Thanks.

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

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 12:42 am

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  In Settings>Discussion you need to disable “Allow people to post comments on new articles” as well as “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)”.
  For already published posts, you need to disable “Allow comments” as well as “Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page” (in the Discussion module of the post editor).

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  wwerant · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 12:53 am

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  Thanks I did that. I unchecked every box about comments. But now it says Comments Off, instead of Leave A Comment. How do I get the Comments Off to just be removed?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 12:56 am

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  That requires (1) css editing skills and (2) a annually renewable custom deisgn upgrade.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 12:57 am

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  See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/editing-css/ and here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

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  wwerant · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 1:01 am

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  Damn, so there’s no way to do this for free?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 1:03 am

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  There’s no free way to do this.

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  wwerant · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 1:05 am

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  Ok, thanks

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  timethief · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 1:05 am

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  Also note thiis please. In a nutshell no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.COM blogs. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM

  The advertising exceptions noted in support documentation are for high traffic blogs that qualify for and are accepted into the Ad Control program, and for extremely high traffic blogs that qualify and are accepted into the paid VIP hosting program.
  http://vip.wordpress.com/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/

  The exceptions noted in support documentation with regard to affiliate links are found here:

  Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

  If you have any further questions about advertising and/or affiliate links and/or ecommerce on a free blog from and being free hosted by wordpress.COM please contact Staff directly using this link. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

  If you do require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  wwerant · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 1:11 am

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  Hmm, didn’t know that. So suppose my blog (WWERant.Com), on the top right, under “Links”, I put “Your Ad Here”, which is where potential advertisements would go. I can’t do that, or install Google Ads, unless I pay WordPress to host the blog? Thanks again.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 1:20 am

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  You must hire your own web host. Then you must get a free software install form WordPress.ORG, if your web host does not provide one. Then you must set up your WordPress.ORG install, move all your content out of your free hosted WordPress.COM blog and into your WordPress.ORG install.
  Read carefully > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
  Then read this > http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org