How to Disable Comments on Pages in WordPress

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Hi all. In this guide, I will tell you how to disable comments in wordpress on all pages and posts. And, how to disable commenting only on specific pages in wordpress.
Please note that when you disable the ability to comment on specific pages, the comments that already exist on them will not be removed. Such comments need to be deleted manually, I talked about this in the last guide.

Why disable commenting on pages at all and is it necessary to do this? Generally not recommended, comments are activity on the site and additional content. Reviews and comments on the site have a positive effect on the promotion of the site. This is especially true of information sites that are heavily dependent on comments.

However, in some cases disabling commenting on pages is appropriate. For example, pages: privacy policy, COOKIE policy and other similar pages. I think the point is clear.

The content of the article:

• How to Disable WordPress Comments on All Pages and Posts
• How to Disable Comments in WordPress for Individual Pages or Posts
  
• Conclusion

How to Disable WordPress Comments on All Pages and Posts

To disable the ability to leave comments on your site, follow these steps:
1. In the admin panel menu, select "Settings", then "Discussion".

2. Uncheck the box "Allow comments on new articles". Then, at the very bottom of the page, click on "Save Changes".

After that, the new settings will take effect. This method disables the ability to comment on the entire site (pages and posts).

Please note: this method disables commenting, but does not remove posted comments on pages. This method will only cover future pages and posts. On pages before the ability to comment was disabled, it will still be possible to leave a comment.

To fix this issue, use the following method below.

How to Disable Comments in WordPress for Individual Pages or Posts

When you need to disable the ability to comment on individual pages/posts, follow the steps described below:

1. From the WordPress admin panel, open the page or post on which you would like to disable comments.

2. Click on the right side in the upper corner on "Screen Settings" and mark in "Discussions".

3. After you do this, an additional block will appear in the editor "Discussion". This block is located under the post editor window at the very bottom. Uncheck "Allow comments". After making all the changes, refresh your page/post.
Thus, the ability to leave comments will be disabled on this page. If suddenly, you need to return everything back, just return the checkmark to the item "Allow Comments".

Conclusion

Disabling comments in WordPress is easy. But, ask yourself the question: does your site need it? I mean, commenting on a website has a major impact on SERP rankings.

By disabling this feature, you inadvertently slow down the development of your project and slow it down a lot. In the following posts I will tell you how to install the Yandex Metrics counter on the site using HTML code and using the plugin, and of course how to install Google Analytics on the WordPress site. I hope this guide was helpful to you.

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