Title: Comment Crusher
Author: Olly - OWMC
Published: <strong>June 29, 2018</strong>
Last modified: December 9, 2018

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# Comment Crusher

 By [Olly – OWMC](https://profiles.wordpress.org/olly-owmc/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comment-crusher.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-crusher/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-crusher/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-crusher/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-crusher/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-crusher/)

## Description

Many people use WP as a fully fledged CMS, building sites which don’t even have 
a blog. In such cases, the WP comments functionality is a waste of pixels and needs
completely removing. Comment Crusher was made to quickly and thoroughly clear your
install of every trace of comment functionality.

For many years I have used this collection of hooks to achieve this end. So came
the idea to put it in a plugin and make it available to the masses. Simply activate
this plugin and never worry about comments again.

When activated, even though all pre-existing comments on your site won’t be visible,
they do still exist in your database. This plugin doesn’t delete them. And so deactivating
the plugin will restore full comments functionality and reveal all previous comments
again.

This plugin does not collect any data, neither does it modify your database.

 * Disable comment and trackback support from all post-types
 * Deactivate comments and pings on the front end
 * Hide all existing comments
 * Remove the comment metabox from the dashboard
 * Remove comments link from the toolbar
 * Remove the admin menu link for comments
 * Redirect anyone trying to access the comments admin page

This plugin was built using the [WP Plugin Boilerplate](https://wppb.me) and the
custom functionality code I think goes back to [Matt Clements in 2013](https://gist.github.com/mattclements/10a997775894c7a0eba1).

## Installation

 1. Upload `comment-crusher.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Comment Crusher” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Olly – OWMC ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/olly-owmc/)

[Translate “Comment Crusher” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/comment-crusher)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/comment-crusher/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/comment-crusher/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-crusher/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-crusher/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * All systems are go.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.0.25**
 *  PHP version ** 5.2.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[spam](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-crusher/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Olly – OWMC ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/olly-owmc/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-crusher/)

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