Disable Comments - Remove Comments & Stop Spam [Multi-Site Support]
Enable/Disable comments on any WordPress content (Pages, Posts, or Media) to stop spammers. WP-CLI, XML-RPC & REST-API support to stop spam comments.
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Take Global Control Over Your WordPress Site
Override all comments-related settings throughout your website & manage your comments just the way you want.
Disable Comments On Posts, Pages & Media
Choose which posts, pages or media should allow comments from site visitors & configure Disable Comments accordingly
Disallow Comments On Multi-Site Network
Have multiple websites? Get rid of irrelevant comments on the entire network using Disable Comments Plugin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9AteKzQpPs
KEY FEATURES OF DISABLE COMMENTS
- All “Comments” links are hidden from the Admin Menu and Admin Bar.
- All comment-related sections (“Recent Comments”, “Discussion” etc.) are hidden from the WordPress Dashboard.
- All comment-related widgets are disabled (so your theme cannot use them).
- The “Discussion” settings page is hidden.
- All comment RSS/Atom feeds are disabled (and requests for these will be redirected to the parent post).
- The X-Pingback HTTP header is removed from all pages.
- Outgoing pingbacks are disabled.
- Stop spam comments entirely from the site with one click.
- Delete comments by type, including WooCommerce product reviews.
- Disable comments via XML-RPC & REST-API
- Fully Multi-site Network supported.
- Manage multiple website network-specific subsites or entire network comments in advance.
- Exclude Disable Comments Settings based on user roles.
- Keep the WordPress 6.9+ Block Editor “Notes” comment type working while every other comment stays off.
- [New in 2.8.0] AI-agent ready: supports the WordPress Abilities API (WP 6.9+), so AI assistants and MCP clients can read your comment settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBq3-W-p-DM
Please delete any existing comments on your site
before applying this setting, otherwise (depending on your theme) those comments may still be displayed to visitors. You can use the
Delete Comments tool to delete any existing comments on your site.
🌟 WHAT’S NEW WITH DISABLE COMMENTS 2.0
AMAZING USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE
Easily configure your comment-related settings with an amazing and attractive app-like user interface.
WP-CLI COMMANDS TO DISABLE COMMENTS
Use
WP-CLI control for comment-related settings to disable comments on posts, pages, attachments or everywhere on your website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzi5uhKB9Zk
GET STARTED WITH QUICK SETUP WIZARD
Use the quick setup wizard after activating the plugin to instantly configure comment-related settings for your WordPress website.
DISABLE COMMENTS ON DOCS
Instantly disable comments on your documentation pages or WordPress knowledge base with a single click.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7BQ-7A4y4s
DELETE CERTAIN COMMENT TYPE(S)
Permanently delete certain comment types from your WordPress website including WooCommerce product reviews as well as generic comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izm_ihC-z10
DISABLE COMMENTS VIA XML-RPC And REST API
Block any comments made on your WordPress website via XML-RPC specification and REST API.
Important note: Use this plugin if you don't want comments at all on your site (or on certain post types). Don't use it if you want to selectively disable comments on individual posts - WordPress lets you do that anyway. If you don't know how to disable comments on individual posts, there are instructions in
the FAQ.
If you come across any bugs or have suggestions, please use the plugin support forum. I can't fix it if I don't know it's broken! Please check the
FAQ for common issues.
Want to contribute? Here's the
GitHub development repository.
A
must-use version of the plugin is also available.
Advanced Configuration
Some of the plugin’s behavior can be modified by site administrators and plugin/theme developers through code:
- Define
DISABLE_COMMENTS_REMOVE_COMMENTS_TEMPLATE and set it to false to prevent the plugin from replacing the theme's comment template with an empty one.
- Define
DISABLE_COMMENTS_ALLOW_DISCUSSION_SETTINGS and set it to true to prevent the plugin from hiding the Discussion settings page.
These definitions can be made either in your main
wp-config.php or in your theme's
functions.php file.
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The format is based on
Keep a Changelog
and this project adheres to
Semantic Versioning.
This will be maintained from August 19, 2020 - @asif2bd
[2.9.1] - 2026-10-25
- Improved: Settings tabs now show in the page URL, so a tab can be linked or bookmarked and stays open after a refresh
- Fixed: The network-admin "Custom post types" label on the Disable Comments and Delete Comments tabs no longer renders at 10px
- Fixed: Saving settings no longer triggers a PHP warning when "Everywhere" has never been set
- Improved: Several minor improvements and fixes throughout the plugin
[2.9.0] - 2026-09-01
- New Feature: Conditional rules - disable or re-enable comments by taxonomy term, page template, or post age, instead of by post type alone
- New Feature: Dry-run preview for Delete Comments - see which comments a delete will remove before running it, and download them as CSV first
- New Feature: Blocked-attempt counter - see how many comment, trackback and REST attempts the plugin has turned away, reported in Site Health
- New Feature: Export and import settings as JSON, with a diff preview before anything is written
- New Feature: WooCommerce product reviews are now a first-class setting, separate from ordinary comments, including closing reviews while other product comments stay open
- New Feature: Theme conflict scanner - diagnoses a theme that still renders a comment form after comments are disabled
- New Feature: Abilities API write support (WordPress 6.9+) - AI assistants and MCP clients can change comment settings and delete comments, gated on the same capabilities as the admin screens
- New Feature: The advanced tools now have a Settings tab of their own, leaving the first screen to the core choice of where comments are off
- Improved: The Delete Comments preview lists the comments it matched - author, date, post and an excerpt - rather than only how many there are
- Improved: Conditional rule terms are searchable, so a taxonomy with more than 200 terms is fully reachable
- Improved: Site Health reports conditional rules, so the overview no longer reads "comments are enabled everywhere" while a rule is closing them
- Improved: Settings screen layout - aligned rule controls, a readable blocked-attempt breakdown, consistent label sizes, and result boxes that match the rest of the plugin
- Improved: readme and plugin directory listing rewritten for clarity
- Fixed: CSV backups escape every free-text column, so a comment cannot execute as a formula when the file is opened in a spreadsheet
- Fixed: An anonymous REST read is no longer counted as a blocked attempt
- Fixed: "Counting blocked attempts since" keeps its start date instead of showing today's date until the first block
- Fixed: A delete that matches nothing no longer reloads the whole settings screen
- Fixed: The review prompt can be dismissed on every screen it appears on
- Fixed: Uninstall removes the review-prompt data the plugin created
- Fixed: The Abilities API set-status summary describes the site's configuration rather than the calling user's role exemption
- Fixed: "Total Comments" says what it counts, so it no longer contradicts the mode-specific delete preview
- Developer:
disable-comments delete gains --dry-run and --export=<file>; new disable-comments export and disable-comments import WP-CLI commands
[2.8.0] - 2026-07-27
- New Feature: WordPress Abilities API support (WordPress 6.9+) — AI assistants, the command palette and MCP clients can now ask the site where comments are disabled, via the read-only
disable-comments/get-status ability
- Fixed: Page caches are now purged when settings are saved or comments are deleted — previously a cached page kept serving the comment form after comments were disabled
- Compatible with WordPress 7.0
[2.7.1] - 2026-07-22
- Improvement: General improvements
[2.7.0] - 2026-04-05
- Improvement: Improved overall performance and stability
[2.6.2] - 2026-01-20
- Fixed: An issue where deleting Notes in WordPress 6.9+ throws an error
[2.6.1] - 2025-12-02
- Compatible with WordPress 6.9
- Added: Introduced the “Enable Certain Comment Types” setting, allowing you to exclude the new Block Editor “Notes” comment type introduced in WordPress 6.9
Older releases are listed in changelog.txt.