Olly - OWMC

<p>Many people use WP as a fully fledged CMS, building sites which don’t even have a blog. In such cases, the WP comments functionality is a waste of pixels and needs completely removing. Comment Crusher was made to quickly and thoroughly clear your install of every trace of comment functionality.</p>
<p>For many years I have used this collection of hooks to achieve this end. So came the idea to put it in a plugin and make it available to the masses. Simply activate this plugin and never worry about comments again.</p>
<p>When activated, even though all pre-existing comments on your site won’t be visible, they do still exist in your database. This plugin doesn’t delete them. And so deactivating the plugin will restore full comments functionality and reveal all previous comments again.</p>
<p>This plugin does not collect any data, neither does it modify your database.</p>
<ul>
<li>Disable comment and trackback support from all post-types</li>
<li>Deactivate comments and pings on the front end</li>
<li>Hide all existing comments</li>
<li>Remove the comment metabox from the dashboard</li>
<li>Remove comments link from the toolbar</li>
<li>Remove the admin menu link for comments</li>
<li>Redirect anyone trying to access the comments admin page </li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin was built using the <a href="https://wppb.me" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Plugin Boilerplate</a> and the custom functionality code I think goes back to <a href="https://gist.github.com/mattclements/10a997775894c7a0eba1" rel="nofollow ugc">Matt Clements in 2013</a>.</p>


Comment Crusher

Disable and remove comments on your WP site.

pluginkollektiv

<p>Few users are familiar with the comment block list built into WordPress. Located in the WordPress admin area under “Settings”—“Discussion”, that block list for incoming comments accepts values (words) to identify spam by.</p>
<p>Additionally to plugins like <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/antispam-bee/" rel="ugc">Antispam Bee</a> in order to fight spam successfully a curated comment block list is recommendable. You can either update the list manually, or utilize a very detailed global <a href="https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist" rel="nofollow ugc">comment block list</a> that gets updated on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Block List Updater has been developed to keep your comment block list in your WordPress installation up to speed with the curated global list on GitHub.</p>
<p>The plugin will check the global comment block list on GitHub multiple times a day. Whenever new anti-spam values have been added to the global list, Block List Updater will read the global list and update your WordPress database accordingly. While the check-up process will run several times a day, the plugin will only update the database when it detects an actual change of the global comment block list on GitHub.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Community support via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blacklist-updater" rel="ugc">support forums on wordpress.org</a></li>
<li>We don’t handle support via e-mail, Twitter, GitHub issues etc.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active development of this plugin is handled <a href="https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/blacklist-updater" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</li>
<li>Pull requests for documented bugs are highly appreciated.</li>
<li>If you think you’ve found a bug (e.g. you’re experiencing unexpected behavior), please post at the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blacklist-updater" rel="ugc">support forums</a> first.</li>
<li>If you want to help us translate this plugin you can do so <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/blacklist-updater" rel="nofollow ugc">on WordPress Translate</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Author: <a href="https://sergejmueller.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sergej Müller</a></li>
<li>Maintainers: <a href="https://pluginkollektiv.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">pluginkollektiv</a></li>
</ul>


Block List Updater

Automatic updating of the comment block list in WordPress with antispam keys from GitHub.

Comment Crusher vs Block List Updater