Maintenance 40/100203d since update
Active installs
1,000
Downloads
10,654
Reviews
2
Age
3.7y
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Plugin info
Total downloads: 10,654
Active installs: 1,000
Total reviews: 2
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 2 language(s)
Contributors: 6
Last updated: 6/11/2025 (203 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 4/7/2022 (3 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 7.4
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Stale • Last updated 203 days ago • 2 reviews
40/100
Is Turn Comments Off abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 203 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.9
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 7.4
Languages
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Description
Activate this plugin to immediately remove all comment functionality from WordPress.
- Stop comments and pingbacks on all existing and future content.
- Remove “Discussion” from Settings in the admin menu.
- Remove “Comments” from the admin menu.
- Remove the comments bubble from the admin bar.
- Remove “Recent Comments” from the site activity dashboard widget.
- Remove the comments feed link.
- Unregister all core comment blocks in the editor.
- Remove “Manage Comments” from My Sites on multisite. (If network activated.)
No configuration necessary (or available).
If you find something we missed, please let us know!
Installation
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Changelog
2.0.0
- Fix a fatal PHP error when a comment query requests a count.
- Note: If you had manually removed our
comments_pre_queryfilter for any reason,
(you likely weren’t), you’ll need to adjust your code to account for the new
namespaced function. - Update development dependencies.
1.3.2
- No functional changes.
- Update development dependencies.
- Confirm WordPress 6.6 support.
1.3.1
- No functional changes.
- Replace
@wordpress/scriptsdependency with leaner configuration. - Confirm WordPress 6.5 support.
1.3.0
- Remove “Manage Comments” from site menus under My Sites on multisite.
- Confirm WordPress 6.4 support.
- Update
wordpress/scriptsdependency to 26.15.0. - Improve linting configuration.
1.2.1
- No functional changes, only custodial.
- Confirm WordPress 6.2 support.
- Update
wordpress/scriptsdependency to 26.1.0. - Improve linting configuration.
1.2.0
- Update the list of blocks unregistered to include latest from Gutenberg and WordPress.
- Update
wordpress/scriptsto 24.6.0. - Refactor how the list of blocks is managed to make future maintenance easier. Props @huubl.
- Only unregister blocks that are registered. Props @huubl.
1.1.1
- Unregister core comment blocks in the editor.
1.0.2
- Add automated GitHub deployments to wp.org.
1.0.1
- Add PHP namespace.
1.0.0
- Initial release.