Have you ever gotten that annoying comments on your wordpress blog, comments that have nothing to do with the article and normally it turns out to be spam? Normally you can disable comments per post, but there is not an option to disable the comments site wide.
However if you have access to your comments.php file (May need to make it writable to do this) you can simply disable comments by doing the following.
*Make sure that file is writable*.
Open the comments.php file in your design section of wordpress and select that theme. This only works per theme, so if you change it, you will need to update the new theme as well. In the file, you can copy all the code and save it, which I recommend.
Now remove all the code and insert your witty replace. It doesn’t have to be php or html. Just a simple statement will do. For the sake of being PC, I simply used “comments closed” for this blog…. but you can do what you choose to do.
Save the file and and make sure to make the file unwritable again.
That’s it. No more comments will be posted for your blogging site and it’s site wide (more like theme wide).
Enjoy!
