Disable comments in WordPress – By Roy Eyal

Roy Eyal sent us a PHP snippet which will allow you to disable comments in WordPress completely.

Copy paste the code below into a PHP code snippets at your website.

<?php

add_action( 'admin_init', function () {
	// Redirect any user trying to access comments page
	global $pagenow;

	if ( $pagenow === 'edit-comments.php' ) {
		wp_redirect( admin_url() );
		exit;
	}

	// Remove comments metabox from dashboard
	remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_recent_comments', 'dashboard', 'normal' );

	// Disable support for comments and trackbacks in post types
	foreach ( get_post_types() as $post_type ) {
		if ( post_type_supports( $post_type, 'comments' ) ) {
			remove_post_type_support( $post_type, 'comments' );
			remove_post_type_support( $post_type, 'trackbacks' );
		}
	}
} );

// Close comments on the front-end
add_filter( 'comments_open', '__return_false', 20, 2 );
add_filter( 'pings_open', '__return_false', 20, 2 );

// Hide existing comments
add_filter( 'comments_array', '__return_empty_array', 10, 2 );

// Remove comments page in menu
add_action( 'admin_menu', function () {
	remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' );
} );

// Remove comments links from admin bar
add_action( 'init', function () {
	if ( is_admin_bar_showing() ) {
		remove_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'wp_admin_bar_comments_menu', 60 );
	}
} );

Thank you so much Roy Eyal for sharing this useful snippet 🙏

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