Turn WordPress into a non-blogging CMS platform. Disable Blogging is a plugin that disables all blog related functionalities on the front-end and back-end. This includes posts, comments, feeds, and so much more. As a result, you will have a cleaner and simpler WordPress platform to be used for static websites.
Disable all posting & comments functions
At its core level, all posting and comment related functionalities are disabled - but that's not all.
Disable Blogging includes 20+ extra features to disable and hide cumbersome functions that run on WordPress including:
Notice
This plugin does not delete any data on WordPress. It hides and disables those features that are blog related. If you have any existing, posts, comments, categories, and tags on your website:
they must be manually deleted. That's if you do not want to keep any of the blog information. All plugin features are available in the plugin's settings (
Settings >
Blogging).
Links to previous posts will still be accessible and previous comments will be hidden from view.
Contribute on GitHub
Want to help improve this plugin? Head over to our
GitHub page. Please make all contributions to our
dev
branch.
- Upload the plugin to the
../wp-content/plugins/
directory.
- Activate the plugin through the
Plugins
menu in WordPress.
- Let it settle in a for a minute and be amazed.
Settings Page
By default all blogging functionality are disabled. However, these options can be toggled in the plugin's
Settings >
Blogging.
2.1.0
2020-09-14
- Added minimum required PHP version in readme
- Updated Settings API wrapper
- Fix: depreciation warning for Extra > Help Tabs (thanks to Timothée Moulin)
- Fix: depreciation warning for "Comment must be manually approved" option (pull #18)
- Fix: large plugin icon (issue #12)
2.0.4
2017-01-14
- Screen Options tab can now be removed from the admin header
- Both
post
and comments
are removed from the REST API
- Hiding additional admin menu items is no longer available
- Removed depreciated plugin option from v1.3.0
- Fix: fatal error with WooCommerce setup (issue #12)
2.0.3
2016-11-26
- Fix: fatal error given on some websites (thanks to CotswoldPhoto)
2.0.2
2016-11-25
- i18n support: available in Japanese
- Disable alternative "Howdy" greetings in different languages (thanks to Maël Conan)
- Menu Feature: option to disable reordering of Pages menu
- Fix: empty array error given for some websites
- Fix: invalid argument supplied for
foreach()
warning (issue #10)
2.0.1
2016-10-23
- Fix: website would load a blank page when disabling feeds
2.0.0
2016-10-23
- Rebuilt plugin with new Settings API, everything is now 100% customizable
- Reordered "Pages" menu further up underneath the "Dashboard" (thanks to Piet Bos)
- The "Activity" meta box will show custom post types instead (thanks to SECT)
- Extra Features
- Remove code in header used to add support for emojis
- Change or remove the admin footer
- Profile Features
- Hide additional profile fields created by plugins/theme by their label ID
- Menu Features
- Option to hide dashicons
- Option to remove separators
- Blog related options are hidden from the Settings
- Set the following blog options in the Settings:
- Reading: Set default the reading settings to a static page
- Discussion: Unchecked "attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article"
- Discussion: Unchecked "allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles"
- More extensive features added to disable blog related features
- Various code improvements
- Fix: comments column showing up in Pages
- Fix: custom
Taxonomy
redirecting to Pages upon update (issue #3)
The rest of the changelog can be
viewed on GitHub.