Remove ability to comment - Wordpress.

Hi!

I want to use Wordpress as a CMS instead of a blog so I would like to be able to remove the comment box from all the pages.

Does anyone have any idea how this could be done?

Thanks for your help!

 

When you make a new post, there is an option on the top right to allow comments...uncheck the box.

 

In the administrator area, there is an option "Allow people to post comments on the article" under Options > Discussion.

 

As stated before. Also, if you want more privilages or due to security reasons, there are lots of plugins that are concerned with the comments visibility. I think I saw one like the youtube comments with Spam Rates and etc.

 

Yepp! Just untick anyone can comment and users must be logged in to comment under Discussion.

Then the comment option dont turn up when writing a post.

 

You can take the comment code off the page

 

Thanks guys,

I have done as advised and now all it shows is "Sorry, comments for this entry are closed at this time."

I would love to be able to get rid of that too if anyone knows how I wont be needing comments on the site at all so is there a part of the code I can remove?

 

Dunno if you can remove it, but you can change the message to blank. Just look for this code in \wp-content\themes\themename\comments.php

 <?php else : // Comments are closed ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

PHP:

 

Yep that will do!

Thanks mate!

 

No problem. Glad to have helped.

 

In your single.php you could also remove

<?php comments_template(); ?>

Code (markup):