Applying and Stripping Comments from Specific Pages

I know how to strip comments from WordPress but what I'm trying to learn is how to strip comments from all other pages but then keep them on the blog page of the site. How do you do this? I know how to disable comments but this is not what I want as it doesn't look professional when you have something like "Comments Turned Off". Thanks.

 

You can simply put comments into moderation and then approve as per your need. And with combination of moderation queue and askimet it should work out pretty well if you do not want to turn off comments.

 

I know how to moderate comments. That is not what I am asking. I'm talking about stripping out comments on pages where I don't want them and then having where I want them, such as a blog page. Perhaps this can be controlled in page templates but I don't know.

 

open page.php file of your active theme

delete <?php comments_template(); ?>

if you are using twentyten you can find that code on loop-page.php

 

Thanks for that reply. I'll give that a whirl. Does doing that on page.php effect only pages and not posts?

 

only pages

single post view will use single.php template

 

Thanks a lot for clarifying. Very helpful. In my last project, I just ripped out all the comments code from comments.php, which has its limitations

 

If you need to display comments on specific page, use this code in your page.php

<?php if ( get_post_custom_values('comments') ) comments_template(); ?>

Then on the page editor, add a custom field with key and value = "comments"