Wordpress Help - Removing Comments section

InTheTrees

Hi, I hope I'm asking this in the correct place.

I've just started using WordPress. I've made a couple of site I'm pretty happy with.

But I'd like to remove the Comments section that shows up on every page. Is there some easy way of identifying this part in the editor and removing it? (My html knowledge is reasonable, i'm okay up to a point, digging around in the code.)

Thanks in advance.

sheesh

there is a setting
'Automatically close comments on articles older than'
if you set it to 0 would that not allow the comment?

just tried that does not work

mayo.mick

InTheTrees wrote: »

Hi, I hope I'm asking this in the correct place.

I've just started using WordPress. I've made a couple of site I'm pretty happy with.

But I'd like to remove the Comments section that shows up on every page. Is there some easy way of identifying this part in the editor and removing it? (My html knowledge is reasonable, i'm okay up to a point, digging around in the code.)

Thanks in advance.

No need to go near any code. On your dashboard click pages, under each page you want to turn off comments, click quick edit, tick comments on/off and save.

InTheTrees

mayo.mick wrote: »

No need to go near any code. On your dashboard click pages, under each page you want to turn off comments, click quick edit, tick comments on/off and save.

I'll try that. It looks promising.

I already used the editor to comment out the first five lines of "comments.php" and that seemed to work too.

uck51js9zml2yt

InTheTrees wrote: »

I'll try that. It looks promising.

I already used the editor to comment out the first five lines of "comments.php" and that seemed to work too.

you should be able to do it under settings. cant remember which option

mrbubbles

There is an option under settings to turn off comments for new posts/pages. If you want to turn it off for all existing posts/pages the easiest way is to run a DB query. This article should have everything you need to know: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-trackbacks-and-pings-on-existing-wordpress-posts/ (of course, depending on the number of pages - and whether you're confident with MYSQL, it may be easier to just go through and do it on a per-post/page basis)

fl4pj4ck

InTheTrees wrote: »

I'll try that. It looks promising.

I already used the editor to comment out the first five lines of "comments.php" and that seemed to work too.

keep in mind that every time there's a WP update it will get overwritten