Title: Technical Speech
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Technical Speech

 *  [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/)
 * Hi
 * I am still working on my blogs:
    [http://ace.dpwatch.com/](http://ace.dpwatch.com/)
   a few questions:
 * how do I remove popular posts?
    How do I modify how they look, the number of 
   posts diplayed, or which posts to display? how do I remove “Comments OFF” on 
   the posts? how do I remove “blogroll” on the sidebar? how do I remove recent 
   comments?
 * Those are widgets but they seem to be forced widgets you have no control on since
   I never put them here in the first place…
    Thanks

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292062)
 * how do I remove popular posts?
 * have you seen the themes options page? select (Disable “Featured Posts” display”)
   Dashboard > Appearance > Technical Speech Settings
 * For all the rest of your questions:
 * have you been to the widgets section of your own dashboard yet?
 * Funny thing about that options page. It won’t load in your dashboard when the
   owners site won’t load. I just confirmed it three time. If the owners site could
   not be reached, the options page won’t load. Huh. Just a quirk in the theme you
   think?
 *  Thread Starter [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292064)
 * “Featured post” is not the same thing as “Popular Posts”
    Popular posts is a 
   widget that I have not installed as already pointed out. Featured posts can be
   accessed from the Dashboard > Appearance > Technical Speech Settings the other
   can’t. That’s why I asked.
 * On the widget page NO widget are isntalled not even the category one, still they
   all appear on my sidebars…
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292065)
 * Yeah. Have you tried replacing the default widgets with your own? What happens
   if you try that.
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292066)
 * You know what I mean, right? Slide a widget from the left over to the right? 
   DO the default widgets disappear when you do that?
 *  Thread Starter [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292067)
 * I know what you mean and this weird but it does work.
    Great!
 * OK now
    how do I remove popular posts?on the front page maybe by adding a block
   in the widget page…must check. How do I modify how they look, the number of posts
   diplayed, or which posts to display? how do I remove “Comments OFF” on the posts?
 * 🙂
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292069)
 * That “Recent Posts” and “Popular Posts” crap aren’t widgets. It’s hard coded 
   into the theme layout. You can find it in** home.php**. It loads home.php instead
   of index.php. You can experiment and customize the layout by renaming home.php
   to old.home.php, and rename index.php to “home.php”. You can then change the 
   titles of Recent, Popular, Featured, etc… from inside those files.
 *  Thread Starter [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292071)
 * OH but there is another problem here
 * Ok whenever I piut my widgets on the sidebars the other vanished. Fine.
    But 
   the one I actually like “CONTRIBUTORS” also vanishes and that one I want to keep
   but it’s not a widget.
 * So now it’s either I keep unwanted stuff or I do without a useful one.
 * Clever.
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292073)
 * The theme looks like it could actually be a good one, but I think it still needs
   a lot of work.
 * For your comments OFF issue, you night take a look in the dashboard and see if
   all comments are turned off.
 * Here is an example: [http://codex.wordpress.org/images/5/55/options-discussion1.png](http://codex.wordpress.org/images/5/55/options-discussion1.png)
 * Make sure “Allow people to post comments on the article” is checked.
 *  Thread Starter [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292076)
 * I don’t want ANY comment it’s a feeds aggregator you read and you leave 🙂
    Don’t
   you linger on, reader…
 * Theme looks great, will try to improve it with input or switch or make a similar
   in Artisteer.
    But the guy put a lot of work and efforts in it, it deserves some
   exposure. The more input, the better it gets.
 *  Thread Starter [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292237)
 * Hi
 * I still have this issue with “COMMENTS OFF” that I need to take OFF posts.
 * I’ve removed anything realted to comments in Single.php and I am a bit lost now…
 *  [Gerald Yeo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geraldyeo/)
 * (@geraldyeo)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292238)
 * I assume you want to remove “comments OFF” totally from your front page?
    If 
   so, remove the following from index.php
 *     ```
       <?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292239)
 * Hi this is my index.php the line has already been removed a while ago in page.
   php, single.php and index.php
 * ?php get_header(); ?>
    <div id=”content”> <div class=”contentbox”> <?php if (
   have_posts()) : ?> <div class=”boxheading”><span>Latest Posts</span><div class
   =”clear”></div><div class=”left”></div></div> <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();?
   > <div class=”posts”> <h6 class=”postheading” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>” 
   rel=”bookmark” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></
   h6> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> ” class=”readmorelink”>Read More <div class=”postsmetadata”
   > Category : <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?>. <?php the_tags( ‘Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ‘.’);?
   > <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit Post’, ”, ”); ?> </div> </div> <?php endwhile; ?
   > <?php if (show_posts_nav()) : ?> <div class=”postsnav”><span class=”left”><?
   php next_posts_link(‘« Older Entries’) ?></span><span class=”right”><?php previous_posts_link(‘
   Newer Entries »’) ?></span><div class=”clear”></div></div> <?php endif; ?> <?
   php else : ?> <div class=”boxheading”><span>Error : Not Found</span><div class
   =”clear”></div><div class=”left”></div></div> <div class=”posts”> <p>Sorry, but
   you are looking for something that isn’t here.</p> <?php get_search_form(); ?
   > </div> <?php endif; ?> </div> </div> <?php get_sidebar(‘block’); ?> <?php get_sidebar(‘
   right’); ?> <?php get_sidebar(‘left’); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?>
 *  Thread Starter [substitute](https://wordpress.org/support/users/substitute/)
 * (@substitute)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-speech/#post-1292240)
 * IT has nothing to do with the THEME
 * wp-includes has a file comments-template.php
 * Line 720 of wp-icludes/comment-template.php has the words ‘Comments Off’ as the
   value of the variable $none (in the comments_popup_link function)
 * I removed it and they were gone for good…
    Sometimes a good old search is your
   best friend….

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