It can be switched off for the entire site on the Discussion Settings screen (3rd box down).
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giec
(@giec)
hi thanks, but that’s what I have already done, clearing the Allow people to post comments on new articles box, but there is still a comment on the above page. Do I have to delete the comment for that to take effect?
That is a default sample page and can be deleted.
Any page or post that was marked to allow comments before the change will remain with comments. You can change each one.
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giec
(@giec)
ah ok I see, so to remove that comment (more than the comment itself which is now gone is the form that allows people to leave comments) do I need to completely delete the page and make an new one?
You should be able to turn that off on each page or post.
If you cannot see the Discussion attribute box click the Screen Options tab at the top of the page and select the Discussion box.
It should now appear near the bottom.
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giec
(@giec)
well I do see the discussion option, it is under setting on my dashboard and the “allow people to post comments is disabled”, so I guess this is like what you said earlier on, I disabled comments after the comment was posted. So would it be better to delete the page and create a new one? WOuld that get rid of the “Leave a reply” box http://andys.antonioborrillo.co.uk/wp/?page_id=2
You can delete the page and start a new one or you can uncheck the Discussion box on the Edit Page screen for that page.
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giec
(@giec)
Michael, the discussion box is already unchecked I am afraid, so I will try to create a new page
Wait a sec, let me get this straight. You simply want to remove comments from your site?
The easiest way to do so is simply go to your page.php, index.php and any other relevent .php page and remove the <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?> tag or anything similar that brings in comments.php.
It’s really that simple.
(it’s similar to your searchform issue).
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giec
(@giec)
well, I want to remove all the comments and the possibility to leave comments, but in the future I might want to get them back on certain pages. I have managed to remove them all there was only one page that was misbehaving, so I deleted it and create a new one, so all sorted,
Okie dokie, glad to hear it 🙂
