Title: Change Comments
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Change Comments

 *  [maxfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxfreeman/)
 * (@maxfreeman)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/)
 * Hi everyone
    I’m new to wordpress (installed today). But I have a (or many?!)
   Question: How can I completly remove the “comment” so nobody is able to see “
   Comments Off” (of course I could make the color white but that seem to me not
   very clever). Thank you for helping! regards Matthias, Switzerland

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-67980)
 * What is it you want to do ?
    – completely remove the ability for any comments
   at all or – change the color/appearance only when you choose not to have comments
   on a post Each needs a different approach 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [maxfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxfreeman/)
 * (@maxfreeman)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-67983)
 * Hi podz 🙂
    – comletely remove the ability for any omments at all <- that’s what
   I want :-). regards Matthias
 *  [ringmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ringmaster/)
 * (@ringmaster)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-67984)
 * If you just want the link to not appear, you can look in your index.php file 
   for this line:
    `<?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (
   1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?>` And change it to: `<?php comments_popup_link(__('
   Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)'),'',''); ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [maxfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxfreeman/)
 * (@maxfreeman)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-67990)
 * Ok I think … that should be enough. Remove the ability to give some comments 
   is probaply more complex.
    thank you for your help. regards Matthias
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-67994)
 * It’s not 🙂
    It’s just that you’ll need to alter what the program outputs when
   you have ‘Comments Off’. You could change that to anything you wanted.
 *  Thread Starter [maxfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxfreeman/)
 * (@maxfreeman)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-67997)
 * hmm I copied your line but it didn’t change anything. Could you help me again(
   perhaps a mistake on my side?)
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-67998)
 * Do this:
    `<?php // comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'),
   __('Comments (%)')); ?>` The two // comment out the commenting 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [maxfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxfreeman/)
 * (@maxfreeman)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-68000)
 * sorry but *lol* I’m a stupid? … ehm it didn’t help me either …
    regards matthias
 *  Thread Starter [maxfreeman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxfreeman/)
 * (@maxfreeman)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-68005)
 * Hi ringmaster and podz
    Both version failed … I can still see “Comments off”.
   Any ideas? regards Matthias
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-68013)
 * \wp-includes\template-functions-comment.php
    Line 58 Change the text there ?
 *  [ringmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ringmaster/)
 * (@ringmaster)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-comments/#post-68016)
 * That’s severe, but it should work best. It’s the only place in the whole program
   that those words appear.

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