What theme are you using? Bionic Jive? Many themes have comments and trackbacks enabled on pages as well as posts. It’s still a page as long as it’s not showing up on your index like regular posts do. It’s still a page as long as it’s showing up in your page navigation list. If you want to diable them, you can do so on a page-by-page basis, or you can go to your “page.php” template and comment out the code that calls in the comments form.
Yeah, I’m using bionic jive. What do you mean page-by-page basis? I will check my page.php files and see wat I can find there. thanks
“page-by-page basis” she means you can disable comments and trackbacks just on that page via the manage / pages / editspecificpage route. Uncheck the checkboxes for comments and trackbacks in the sidebar inside the admin console while you are “editing” the page.
that’s what I did but they kept coming out on the page like it was a post. I ended up switching to the Nexus theme and that took care of it. I really do want to figure this out so I’m not limited to certain themes. thanks for the help
no update on this? i switched to another theme again that I really like but this theme is acting the same way. even if I disable comments and pings at the bottom of the page it says “this post was created by blah blah blah…” I don’t want that to show up at all when I create a page. Anybody??
I think you need to edit your page template (normally page.php) to remove author and date/time info, as well as comments.
Does your theme have a page template? If not, you might want to create one. Just modify your index.php template so it only includes the information you want to show in The Loop for pages, omitting the author and date/time info. If you never plan to allow comments, you can remove anything that calls for comments, too.
A good resources is: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Pages
I had this same problem with “No Comments” appearing at the bottom of my pages when comments were closed. A person would click that link and be told that comments were closed. If they were closed, that link shouldn’t appear! But my theme’s page template wasn’t written that way.
I modified the template to include the following:
<?php if ('open' == $post-> comment_status) : ?>
<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->
<?php comments_popup_link(__('Add Comment'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments')); ?>
<?php else : // comments are closed ?>
<!-- If comments are closed show nothing. -->
<?php endif; ?>
Hope this helps.
thanks a lot. I went into my index.php and just deleted the lines that you had mentioed above (actually the opposite of what you said to do lol) and it worked. Now when you click on my links it goes to my created pages with none of the comment stuff showing up…thanks
