Vitor Carvalho

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. 
Your theme must rely properly on the WordPress API for the front-end support. The tag must be present. 
Completely done through techniques based on both action hooks and CSS.
Doesn’t requires any configuration, just install and any trace of Comments will disappear.
NOTE: This does NOT play with the core, so you are able to update both plugins and WordPress without any trouble.
<h4>Provided Custom Hooks</h4>
This plugin provides 4 custom hooks you may play if you need more substance in your theme.
<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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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.
Do you want to translate it to your language? Just reply to the «Translations» topic in the forum.

Hide Comments Feature

Remove comments functionality and related in your Wordpress instance.

Andy Fragen

Pieter Bos

Due to Matt Mullenweg’s latest <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-login-introduces-mandatory-pineapple-pizza-checkbox" rel="nofollow ugc">pineapple pizza checkbox requirement</a> to log into the WordPress.org website, I can no longer support this plugin and have decided to pass it up to anyone interested to take it over.
Hides (sidebar) ads and premium version buttons of Yoast SEO from their settings pages and your website’s dashboard (and frontend).
The first version of the Hide SEO Bloat plugin was released in April 2015 and ever since team Yoast and I have been playing a game of cat and mouse.
Since version 20.0 of Yoast SEO however, the Settings page has received a complete overhaul, which made the Hide SEO Bloat plugin almost obsolete!
Things have become much, much more trickier to remove/hide now and some things simply can no longer be hidden (believe me, I have tried).
Why are there still people using Yoast SEO one might ask? There are so many great alternatives that come without screaming ads and hiding features behind a paywall!
And the only reason that I have to keep Yoast SEO installed (on a sandbox that is) is because of the mere 10K installs where Hide SEO Bloat is running. Compare that with my popular <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor-addon/" rel="ugc">Classic Editor + plugin</a>, which has more than 30,000 active installs!
For everyone to become much more productive and happier, my proposal therefore is to switch to any of the other SEO plugins, such as SEOPress, The SEO Framework, Rankmath, or any other one out there! Did you know that most SEO plugins come with easy one-click migration tools?
I support this plugin exclusively through <a href="https://github.com/senlin/so-clean-up-wp-seo/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. Therefore, if you have any questions, need help and/or want to make a feature request, please open an issue over at Github. You can also browse through open and closed issues to find what you are looking for and perhaps even help others.
Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.
If you like the Hide SEO Bloat plugin, please consider leaving a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/so-clean-up-wp-seo?rate=5#postform" rel="ugc">review</a>. You can also help a great deal by <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/so-clean-up-wp-seo" rel="nofollow ugc">translating the plugin</a> into your own language. 
Alternatively you are welcome to make a <a href="https://so-wp.com/donations" rel="nofollow ugc">donation</a>. Thanks!
<a href="https://so-wp.com/plugin/hide-seo-bloat" rel="nofollow ugc">Hide SEO Bloat</a> by SO WP.

Hide SEO Bloat

Free addon for the Yoast SEO plugin to hide the bloat it adds to the WordPress backend. See changelog for what's new in this release.

Hide Comments Feature vs Hide SEO Bloat