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Or just simply uncheck “Allow people to post comments on the article” at Discussion Settings? o_O

@Marko: You’re right! But this recipe may be usefull for exemple, to someone who design a CMS theme where there’s no comments section.

@Marko if you disable the comments you are still stuck with “no comments allowed on this post” but if you remove the comments section as described here you are left with nothing which makes it cleaner

i absolutly afree with “fromtheold” that´s why i´m commenting out the comments … <!– –> … i like it more “none-destructive” and most sites aren´t too big since gradient-times 2.0

There is another way (follow the link on my name). We wanted comments on the ‘blog’ section, but not anywhere else. So I added a bit of php around the comments code; from memory, it’s along the lines of:

if ( in_category (‘3′) ) { comments_template(); }

where ‘3′ is the category that I want to allow comments in. If not in that category, you don’t get the form, no message about comments being closed, etc.

@Plurkr: I’m pretty sure that any theme designer will comment the line instead of deleting it But as an user, you can delete it on your theme if you’re sure that you don’t need comments.

Found this post when I was looking for a way to disable further comments. I wanted to leave previous comments but disallow all future comments. I could get a WP plugin to do this or change the comment setting for each individual post. Turning off comments in the admin panel helps, but it only affects comments on future posts.

If anyone is interested, I addressed my particular need by logging into my MySQL server and updating the comment_status column in the wp_posts table and set the value to “closed”. I wrote something like this SQL query:

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = ‘closed’;

However, in hindsight I should have done something like this:

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = ‘closed’ WHERE comment_status = ‘open’;

Minor difference but it would have allowed me to see if anything was set to something other than the default of ‘open’.

I’m trying to remove the comment section from only (1) one of my pages, but am unable to without removing them from all of them. Any suggestions?

@GaryTaylor – Can your code be reversed to allow this?