Title: Turn Comments Off Author: Happy Prime Published: April 7, 2022 Last modified: February 10, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/turn-comments-off/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=2984583) ![](https://ps.w.org/turn-comments-off/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=2984583) # Turn Comments Off By [Happy Prime](https://profiles.wordpress.org/happyprime/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/turn-comments-off.2.0.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-comments-off/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-comments-off/#reviews) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-comments-off/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/) ## Description Activate this plugin to immediately remove all comment functionality from WordPress. * Stop comments and pingbacks on all existing and future content. * Remove “Discussion” from Settings in the admin menu. * Remove “Comments” from the admin menu. * Remove the comments bubble from the admin bar. * Remove “Recent Comments” from the site activity dashboard widget. * Remove the comments feed link. * Unregister all core comment blocks in the editor. * Remove “Manage Comments” from My Sites on multisite. (If network activated.) No configuration necessary (or available). If you find something we missed, [please let us know](https://github.com/happyprime/turn-comments-off)! ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/472851080dac7938ead364adf5baca23efe68f95c8643abab07bd3a0ac155c5e? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works. No Ads, settings or upgrades](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-no-ads-settings-or-upgrades/)󠁿 [tom.andersen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tomandersen/) May 27, 2025 Written by the top notch people at happy prime. “co-owner and lead developer at Happy Prime, has been building on the web for 30 years. He’s a WordPress core developer, has contributed to the last 28 major releases of WordPress…” etc. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cf21b37920286a79495beb9b147d5fea6d80e775ef2ce7eb2f47b94ce60351fe? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Does just exactly that](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-just-exactly-that/)󠁿 [3cstudio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/3cstudio/) August 1, 2023 No more reference whatsoever to the Comments section in the admin area… no Settings to fiddle with — just results (or lack thereof). Comments have been a haven for straight crap for a long time anyway. Good riddance! [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Turn Comments Off” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Happy Prime ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/happyprime/) * [ Jeremy Felt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeremyfelt/) * [ slocker ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/slocker/) * [ philcable ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philcable/) “Turn Comments Off” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/turn-comments-off/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Turn Comments Off” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/turn-comments-off) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/turn-comments-off/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/turn-comments-off/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/turn-comments-off/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/turn-comments-off/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog ### 2.0.1 * No functional changes. * Update development dependencies. * Confirm WordPress 6.9 support. ### 2.0.0 * Fix a fatal PHP error when a comment query requests a count. * Note: If you had manually removed our `comments_pre_query` filter for any reason, ( you likely weren’t), you’ll need to adjust your code to account for the new namespaced function. * Update development dependencies. ### 1.3.2 * No functional changes. * Update development dependencies. * Confirm WordPress 6.6 support. ### 1.3.1 * No functional changes. * Replace `@wordpress/scripts` dependency with leaner configuration. * Confirm WordPress 6.5 support. ### 1.3.0 * Remove “Manage Comments” from site menus under My Sites on multisite. * Confirm WordPress 6.4 support. * Update `wordpress/scripts` dependency to 26.15.0. * Improve linting configuration. ### 1.2.1 * No functional changes, only custodial. * Confirm WordPress 6.2 support. * Update `wordpress/scripts` dependency to 26.1.0. * Improve linting configuration. ### 1.2.0 * Update the list of blocks unregistered to include latest from Gutenberg and WordPress. * Update `wordpress/scripts` to 24.6.0. * Refactor how the list of blocks is managed to make future maintenance easier. Props [@huubl](https://profiles.wordpress.org/huubl/). * Only unregister blocks that are registered. Props [@huubl](https://profiles.wordpress.org/huubl/). ### 1.1.1 * Unregister core comment blocks in the editor. ### 1.0.2 * Add automated GitHub deployments to wp.org. ### 1.0.1 * Add PHP namespace. ### 1.0.0 * Initial release. ## Meta * Version **2.0.1** * Last updated **3 months ago** * Active installations **1,000+** * WordPress version ** 5.9 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-comments-off/) and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/turn-comments-off/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/turn-comments-off) * Tag * [comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/turn-comments-off/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/turn-comments-off/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Happy Prime ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/happyprime/) * [ Jeremy Felt ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeremyfelt/) * [ slocker ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/slocker/) * [ philcable ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philcable/) ## Support Got something to say? 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