Title: Unchecking Comment Boxes not working Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Unchecking Comment Boxes not working * [brighttyger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighttyger/) * (@brighttyger) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/) * For a while I could hide my Comment Boxes, but was getting an error message. Now that is resolved (thank you esmi), but I can’t hide the comment box. I’ve gone to the WP Discussion section and unchecked the first 3 boxes, but the comment boxes are still displaying. I would like to have a comment box on my blog page, but not on the default static pages. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Thread Starter [brighttyger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighttyger/) * (@brighttyger) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633823) * I also disabled discussion on individual pages using screen options, and I still have the comment box. Very frustrating. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633907) * Can you link to an example page? * Thread Starter [brighttyger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighttyger/) * (@brighttyger) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633908) * Hello lpstenu, [http://yvesfey.com/french-poetry/](http://yvesfey.com/french-poetry/) On the above page, I’ve done the steps I’ve mentioned above, and the box still shows. However, I worked on my homepage months ago, and did something that I hid the posting box. But I don’t remember what. Too many projects in between. Since I don’t code, it was not a code solution. Ideally, I want the default static pages to look like the homepage (minus the top corner Google font code bug – that’s another new addition). [http://yvesfey.com/](http://yvesfey.com/) The above are my default static pages. On the pages with posts, the box is actually going away unless I click “leave a comment”. [http://yvesfey.com/chocolate-cats-and-crime/](http://yvesfey.com/chocolate-cats-and-crime/) Maybe I can make everything but the front page a page with posts if I can hide message as well as the box there. But since the home page looks okay, I haven’t given up hope that someone knows what to do. It’s very crazy-making. Any help appreciated. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633909) * Okay, when you make those changes on the discussion page, it only changes it for NEW posts and pages. * You have to edit each post and page that you already have to turn off comments. You can quick edit them in the post list screen. Select all, chose ‘edit’ from the drop down, and you can turn off comments fast 🙂 * Thread Starter [brighttyger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighttyger/) * (@brighttyger) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633911) * I did try previously to disable comments on the some individual pages using screen options, with no luck. Taking what you said above I went to the admin page and the second icon “posts”. I selected what was listed in all posts, which was not even a fraction of my pages (I have been working on creating the images, and have very little text, and I’m not blogging yet, so no real posts beyond a simple welcome). I unclicked the comments box as above and applied it. The boxes remain. [http://yvesfey.com/french-poetry/](http://yvesfey.com/french-poetry/) Is this what you meant or did I go to the wrong place? Yves * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633918) * Read this: [http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/](http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/) * You need to do that on your PAGES as well. That’s a page, not a post 🙂 * Thread Starter [brighttyger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighttyger/) * (@brighttyger) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633920) * I had already read the WP help and had already tried several times to disable comments on existing pages by going to the screen options at the top of the default static pages and unchecking Discussion and Comment. The Comment Box remained. So I tried doing someing from WP Posts, as that seemed to be another piece, but that doesn’t appear to do anything either. When I uncheck the boxes on my existing Blog Pages With Posts pages, the Comments box does go away. There is a leave a comment line in the Posting box, and when that is clicked, the Comments box reopens. So there is a basic difference somewhere in WP programming about Comments boxes on Static pages versus Posting pages. Since my front page doesn’t have a Comments box, I did, months ago, find a solution to hiding the Comments box that now eludes me. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633922) * No. There’s zero difference. If you really want to understand the diff between posts and pages, go look up Post Types. But that doesn’t matter. * Comments are comments. All post-types, be they pages, posts, attachments or custom ones you make, have the _ability_ to have comments. * You must turn off comments on _each indivudual page_ for which you want them off. Hundreds of people do this every day. If it’s not working, it’s one of three things: * 1) Your theme is overriding these options. 2) A plugin is overriding these options. 3) You’re doing something wrong. * > When I uncheck the boxes on my existing Blog Pages With Posts pages, the Comments > box does go away. There is a leave a comment line in the Posting box, and when > that is clicked, the Comments box reopens. * You capitalized ‘Blog Pages With Posts’ … Is there a reason for that? Is that a PLUGIN? Which would be cause #2 up there. * Thread Starter [brighttyger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighttyger/) * (@brighttyger) * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633923) * If a plugin was over-riding the removal of the comments box, wouldn’t it do it consistently on static pages and pages with posts? I do exactly the same thing for both. I go to each page, I open the screen options box and uncheck disscussion and comments, update, and check the page to find that my default static pages still have the comment box and the pages with posts do not have it unless it is clicked open. I may well be doing something wrong. That’s why I have been asking for help. But I have followed the WP help carefully, and tried to follow the advice here as I understand it. I tried and deleted a plugin that did hide boxes, but gave a traceback. I have only 4 plugins, Askimet, WP Hide Posts, WP Hide Catagories, and Jetpack, which I believe are all standard WP plugins. I am uncertain about deleting them for that reason, but I can try it. However, since what am doing following it help is half-working, I can’t help but think there is some other solution. I use Weaver, a popular theme. Their help states that this area is controlled by WP, but it listed the WP help. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unchecking-comment-boxes-not-working/#post-2633924) * > If a plugin was over-riding the removal of the comments box, wouldn’t it do > it consistently on static pages and pages with posts? * Depends on how the plugin was written, honestly, and I don’t know. A quick google of ‘Blog Pages With Posts plugin’ comes up short, so I have no idea what plugin that refers to. * > WP Hide Posts, WP Hide Catagories * Turn those off. 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