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How to disable comments in WordPress

Comments are a great way to communicate with your audience, but some site owners don’t like to have comments section on their website. In this article, we’ll guide you step by step process on how to disable comments from your website.

Diable comments through the plugin
Disable comments via WordPress setting

Diable Commnets via Plugin

If you want to disable comments on all over the website or on selective post types, use Disable Comments plugin as it will allow you to disable comments globally. After installing the plugin go to Setting > Disable comments and choose the option according to your requirement. The mentioned plugin is not suitable if you wish to disable comments on a specific post.

Disable comments via WordPress setting

Luckily WordPress has provided the option to disable comments globally on your website and also to remove comments individually on specific posts.

To disable comments globally go to Dashboard > Discussion and uncheck the “Allow people to submit comments on new posts” option.

To remove comments from a specific post or page, go to the Dashboard > Post/Page and click on the edit post link. Scroll down the bottom of the page and make sure to uncheck allow comments option.

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How to remove hentry schema from WordPress?

By default WordPress adds hentry schema to the website, to remove schema add the following code to functions.php

function themes_remove_hentry( $classes ) {
	if ( is_page() ) {
		$classes = array_diff( $classes, array( 'hentry' ) );
  	}

  	else
  	{
  		$classes = array_diff( $classes, array( 'hentry' ) );
  	}
	return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'post_class','themes_remove_hentry' );