Replai Disable Comments & Stop Spam

Replai Comments gives you full control over WordPress comments and stops comment spam — from its own admin section. Turn it on and choose where to disable comments:

• Everywhere on the site, or
• Only on specific post types (posts, pages, media or your custom post types).

While active, Replai Comments:

• Closes comments and trackbacks and removes comment support from the selected content.
• Hides existing comments on the front-end (optional), and swaps the theme's comment template for an empty one so no "comments are closed" message shows.
• Cleans the admin — hides the Comments menu and admin-bar bubble, the "Recent Comments" dashboard widget, the comments list column and the Discussion settings page.
• Blocks spam at the source — disables comments sent through XML-RPC and the REST API.
• Removes pingbacks & feeds — strips the X-Pingback header, disables outgoing pingbacks and comment RSS/Atom feeds.

Live status A real-time panel tells you whether comments are actually open on the web and via the REST API, whether XML-RPC pingback and the X-Pingback header are removed, and — when comments are closed — why (by Replai Comments or by WordPress's Discussion settings / the post itself). Re-check any time. Cache-aware and editor-safe When you save settings or delete comments, Replai Comments purges common page caches (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache, SG Optimizer, Cache Enabler) so a cached page never keeps serving the comment form. It also leaves the block editor "Notes" comment type (WordPress 6.9+) untouched. Bulk delete tool Clean your database with one click: permanently delete all comments, or only pending, spam or pingbacks/trackbacks, processed in batches with live counters. Everything runs on your own site, is fully reversible (turn the plugin off to bring comments back), and the whole admin is available in 7 languages (English, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and German) based on your site language. For developers: define REPLAI_DC_KEEP_TEMPLATE (true) to keep your theme's comment template, or REPLAI_DC_KEEP_DISCUSSION (true) to keep the Discussion settings page.

1.0.9

• The plugin description in the Plugins list now follows your site language (7 languages), like the rest of the admin.

1.0.8

• Tested and compatible with WordPress 7.1.

1.0.7

• Code standards: sanitize post-type input, drop suppress_filters in status queries, and annotate the core/third-party hooks used for live status and cache purging (PHPCS / VIP).

1.0.6

• New: purges common page caches (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3TC, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache, SG Optimizer, Cache Enabler) when settings are saved or comments are deleted.
• New: excludes the block editor "Notes" comment type (WordPress 6.9+) from the API block and bulk delete.

1.0.5

• UI: moved the Re-check button to the Live status panel and removed the Open link from the toggle header.

1.0.4

• UI: the admin is now split into two tabs — General configuration and Delete comments — using the native WordPress tab style.

1.0.3

• Live status now explains why web comments are closed: by Replai Comments or by WordPress (Discussion settings or the post itself).

1.0.2

• UI: settings reorganised into General configuration (with the live status shown in a right column) and a separate Delete comments section.

1.0.1

• New: real-time status panel showing whether comments are open on the web, via REST API, XML-RPC pingback and the X-Pingback header, with a Re-check button.
• New: enable switch redesigned to match the Replai family (toggle + status pill + Open + Re-check).
• Hardening: sanitize post-type input and remove interpolated SQL in the delete tool (PHPCS).

1.0.0

• Initial release: disable comments everywhere or per post type; hide existing comments; clean the admin (menus, admin bar, dashboard widget, list column, Discussion page); block comments via XML-RPC and REST API; remove X-Pingback, outgoing pingbacks and comment feeds; bulk-delete comments (all, pending, spam, pingbacks); multilingual admin.