You will have better luck if you post in that plugin’s support forum. Number ratings are not part of the WordPress core comment system.
I’m not referring to the number plugin, I’m referring to the default WordPress comment script. The rating doesn’t override the comments. I was just mentioning the plugin to make more sense about why I was asking for the comment to be optional just because I knew I’d be asked about that. 🙂
I see what you’re after now.
It’s not terribly easy to mess around with WordPress comments. Is it possible to include this elsewhere than the comment section? (You could disable comments entirely after that.)
Which plugin is this?
Actually after some digging around it’s built into the theme itself (the site is 99% done, I was brought in to make some last minute modifications since the original developer can’t). The only option I can think of would be to remove the rating and then add a seperate plugin but I’d rather not do that since this is all set up already.
Would it be easier to add a default comment if the comment section is left empty? It could just be a blank space. That was my original thought actually, but I wasn’t sure how to go about that.
That’s probably a commercial theme. (It’s unlike that WordPress would approve a theme with a feature like that.) If so, you could contact the theme vendor for support with this.
The only option I can think of would be to remove the rating and then add a seperate plugin
That would be my choice. I don’t know how that theme stores its data in the database, so if you already have ratings, you might lose those.
