Removing ‘Leave a comment’ links from layout, is this possbile?
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Hey there,
the blog I would like you to help me with is http://meinwaerts.wordpress.com. I currently use the theme ‘Cutline’.
After some time of allowing comments I decided by personal reasons not to want it anymore and deactivated it. They can only be made at the page ‘impressum’ but I guess I want to remove it there, too.
Still the ‘Leave a comment” link shows up on the home page and the article pages.
The link is dead but I sometimes get mails from new readers who don’t get the reason why. So I want a way to completely remove the link.https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-prevent-comments-on-a-blog?replies=2
says it was not possible and I guess this could be true because if I remember my poor php and html knowledge this must be in the php/hmtl section from the code not in the css which
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-remove-posted-by-and-leave-a-comment-links-from-layout?replies=2 does say.At the moment I don’t need the css upgrade really for other reasons and wouldn’t like to spend 15 $ for somewhat not working.
Your help is really appreciated. If there is a way to remove it, please let me know it with a detailed instructions for let’s say ‘little idiots’.
I found two different answers to my question and would appreciate if anyone could give me the right one.
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if I remember my poor php and html knowledge this must be in the php/hmtl section from the code not in the css which
This is a multiuser blogging platform where, in essence, all users using the same theme are using the same underlying template. Any editing of that template which can only be accessed by and edited by Staff will create the same change on every wordpress.COM blog using the same theme.
Therefore what you want to do is a “no can do on a wordpress.COM blog”. Whether or not we purchase the CSS upgrade we cannot access, let alone, edit the templates containing the PHP and HTML underlying our blog themes at wordpress.COM. See > http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/
If you require access to your template then your choice is to hire a web host and download free software from wordpress.ORG and hack a template on your own self hosted install. As your software install will be independent that means changes you make to your template will not be experienced on other wordpress.ORG blogs that have the same theme. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Thank you for this fast answer, timethief.
I know well the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org as I hosted a wordpress.org blog for a while. It was just that I became unsure if I was right that it won’t be possible to hide the link. I don’t get it why people here say you could hide them with the css upgrade.
Thanks for the hint with the same template for all users who use the same theme..it’s so logical that a change needs to affect all users..seems I had a knot in my thoughts :-)
Mmmh, I guess I will teach my readers the thing or allow comments again instead of beating and biting again with plugins and all the thing behind the curtain. What I love at wordpress.com is that I can concentrate at my content.
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@meinwaerts: When commenting is disabled, Cutline still displays “Leave a comment” on single posts, but on the main page, category pages etc. the tab becomes “Comments Off” (“Kommentare deaktiviert” if the blog language is set to German). So I guess you should contact staff:
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@panaghiotisadam I guess I’d rather change the theme or enable comments again.
@both of you: I spend my evening with crossreading though your blogs. What a great and informative pool of tips. You put so much time and work to find out all this stuff and I am glad you share that. It will surely improve my blogging and help me answer questions and sove problems. Thank you!
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