General plugin install question (noob)

The menu that shows up depends on the specific plugin you install. The technical details of how it’s done can be found in the Codex.

In your example if you installed another contact plugin, lets say the Grunion Contact Form (that’s what I have installed on my site at the moment so I know how it works), you would see a new menu listed below Comments called Feedbacks. In the case of the Grunion Contact Form it emails you when someone sends you a message and also stores it in the database so you can see it in the administration area under that new Feedbacks menu.

If you installed both Contact Form 7 and Grunion Contact Form you would see both menus in your administration area. I would recommend you choose one contact form plugin and stick with it for simplicity sake but it certainly would be possible to use multiple plugins simultaneously.

I hope this answered the questions you had – if you want more details about something just reply and I’ll do my best to clarify.

Chances are if you installed two plugins that created the same menu name (and they were doing things correctly) you would end up with two menus in the administration area with the same name – they wouldn’t be combined automatically.

I’m not sure what you mean by your question about removing the leave a reply comment section – if you could give more details about what specifically you’re trying to do (and what theme you’re working with) that would help a lot or if you have a specific page on your site you’re working on and could provide a link I’d be happy to take a look. Although, typically comments are handled in the comments.php file in your theme.

Oh that’s easy to turn off, no need to do anything with theme files :-).

If you edit the page (Pages > All Posts > Edit) scroll down and look for a box named Discussion then just uncheck the boxes for Allow comments and Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page. Hit update and go back and take a look at the page again, the box should be gone.

If for some reason the Discussion options aren’t showing up on your edit screen click on the Screen Options link in the upper right corner of the Edit Page screen and make sure that Discussion has a check next to it.