Title: Turn Comments Completely Off
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Turn Comments Completely Off

 *  [illegalprelude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illegalprelude/)
 * (@illegalprelude)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-comments-completely-off/)
 * Hi everyone. I’ve been having some throttling issues lately with my site and 
   I’m starting to believe that it’s related to my comment section. I checked MySQL
   and my comment section was about 150MB.
 * When I login in my WP Admin site, the default WP comment section is always full
   of junk, pingbacks and trackbacks. The odd thing is, I have Disqus installed 
   and I use that. As far as I can see, when I navigate to Setting > Discussion 
   > I have all related to commenting turned off. However, after I purged the 300,000
   comments from MySQL database side, within 5 minutes, I have 35 of these junk 
   comments back.
 * How can I turn the comments completely off or block this? The again weird part
   is that none of these comments are also appearing on the site. Any help would
   be wonderful!

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-comments-completely-off/#post-2579931)
 * Remove the discus plugin should do it if you have comments off, but if any post
   or page was edited to specifically allow comments, you will have to edit them
   to turn comments off, which can be done in ‘batch mode’ (we will call it for 
   lack of a better term):
 * Admin Dashboard>Posts>All Posts>Upper right;Screen Options:Change to a high number
   of posts viewed, 100, etc.>Click check box at top left next to Title to select
   all posts in current view/page>Bulk Action:Edit>Apply>Change Comments to not 
   allowed.
 * Repeat on next page/set of posts and also follow same for pages.
 *  Thread Starter [illegalprelude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illegalprelude/)
 * (@illegalprelude)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-comments-completely-off/#post-2579933)
 * Thank you for your reply Swanson. Here is the issue and I will indeed apply that,
   I only want Disqus as my commenting, which is exactly what I have. I go in a 
   blog post and only Disqus appears.
 * However, when I check with WordPress, even though I have the comments and pingback
   turned off, I get a ton of “junk” incoming links.
 * So I will indeed apply what you have just mentioned, but I’m not sure if this
   will address this issue or not.
 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-comments-completely-off/#post-2579935)
 * And here is a tip to stop most comment spam (if you decide to allow comments 
   again):
 * Admin Dashboard>Settings>Discussion>’Blacklist’ Text Box>Add the following and
   save:
 * http
    www ftp url
 * virtually all of my comments that are spam go to the spam area due to this simple
   setup. I moderate all comments so I catch the rest.
 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-comments-completely-off/#post-2579936)
 * You will need to review the plugin setup options if you continue to use it.
 *  Thread Starter [illegalprelude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illegalprelude/)
 * (@illegalprelude)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-comments-completely-off/#post-2579937)
 * Ahhh yes. And here is the issue with turning off comments with the above method,
   although Disqus still works, the little bubble that appears on the main page 
   with the comment count, displays “Comments Off” now.
 * I’ll try the:
 * >  http
   >  www ftp url
 * Method and see what arises from this.
 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-comments-completely-off/#post-2579939)
 * You can use CSS to hide the bubble

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 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turn-comments-completely-off/#post-2579939)
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