Vitor Carvalho

<p>For those who do not need to have the Comments feature in WordPress (there are a lot of reasons), this plugin removes any trace of that existence in both wp-admin and front-end.<br />
Your theme must rely properly on the WordPress API for the front-end support. The tag  must be present.<br />
Completely done through techniques based on both action hooks and CSS.</p>
<p>Doesn’t requires any configuration, just install and any trace of Comments will disappear.</p>
<p>NOTE: This does NOT play with the core, so you are able to update both plugins and WordPress without any trouble.</p>
<h4>Provided Custom Hooks</h4>
<p>This plugin provides 4 custom hooks you may play if you need more substance in your theme.</p>
<pre><code>add_action( 'hide_comments_post_types', 'my_hide_comments_post_types' ); to change the list of post types to be processed by the plugin. Comments will be removed from all listed post types.
add_action( 'hide_comments_css', 'my_hide_comments_css' ); to add arbitrary CSS to hide comment's stuff from your theme.
add_action( 'hide_comments_template_comments_path', 'my_hide_comments_template_comments_path' ); the default path is the empty file template-comments.php located in the same dir of this plugin. Just modify the path to your own file if you want to return anything else.
add_action( 'hide_comments_dashboard_right_now', 'my_hide_comments_dashboard_right_now' ); if true is returned, the discussion table of dashboard right now widget will be hidden. False otherwise. Defaults to true.
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<p>The use of these hooks are recommended, thus, if the plugin gets deactivated, those hooks will not be called anymore and then you get things consistent and clean.</p>
<p>Do you want to translate it to your language? Just reply to the «Translations» topic in the forum.</p>


Hide Comments Feature

Remove comments functionality and related in your Wordpress instance.

Stephen Cronin

<p>The <a href="http://scratch99.com/products/remove-widget-titles/" rel="nofollow ugc">Remove Widget Titles</a> plugin removes the title from any widget that has a title starting with the “!” character.</p>
<h4>Why Use It?</h4>
<p>This allows you to give widgets a title in the backend for convenience – so you can quickly see which widget is which, rather than having to open them to work out what they are for – without having to show the title on the front end.</p>
<h4>How To Use (once plugin is installed)</h4>
<p>If you have a widget for which you do not want the title to appear on the front end of your site, simply add the “!” character to the start of the widget title (in Appearance -> Widgets).</p>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>This plugin requires WordPress 2.6 or above.</li>
<li>I am not currently aware of any compatibility issues with any other WordPress plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Similar Plugins</h4>
<p>There is another plugin called <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hide-widget-title/" rel="ugc">Hide Widget Title</a>, but that leaves the widget title in the page source and hides it using CSS (adding another http request which slows load time slightly). Remove Widget Titles actually removes the widget title from the HTML. The plugin is only 7 lines of code, so it is extremely light and has minimal impact on performance.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>This plugin is officially not supported (due to my time constraints), but if you leave a comment on the plugin’s home page or <a href="http://www.scratch99.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a>, I’ll try to help if I can.</p>
<h4>Disclaimer</h4>
<p>This plugin is released under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPL licence</a>. I do not accept any responsibility for any damages or losses, direct or indirect, that may arise from using the plugin or these instructions. This software is provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. Please refer to the full version of the GPL license for more information.</p>
<h4>Acknowledgements</h4>
<p>This plugin was originally written for <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/qpsmedia" rel="nofollow ugc">QPS Media</a>, who have allowed me to release it to the WordPress community and maintain ownership of the plugin.</p>


Remove Widget Titles

The Remove Widget Titles plugin removes the title from any widget that has a title starting with the "!" character.

Hide Comments Feature vs Remove Widget Titles