Removing Comments completely?

Hi Michelle,

Turning off comments in Settings > Discussion will prevent comments from appear on all future created pages, but won't remove the setting from previously created pages.

In order to do that, go to the Edit Page section of the page, and click "Screen Options" near the top right, and make sure "Discussion" is selected.

Now look near the bottom of the page for the "Discussion" metabox, and uncheck the options to show comments.

You can also go to your list of pages, and click "Quick Edit" to deselect the comments option.

Hope this helps :)
Tom

Thank you! That worked beautifully.

Is there another way to remove comments, I try that but I still showing the comment box on my post

Have you taken a look at this page?: http://generatepress.com/knowledgebase/removing-comments/

Let me know :)

Or if you are upgrading from an existing theme to GP - then I would recommend "Disable Comments" plugin, a much faster way to do it if many pages and posts. https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/

I see that we can uncheck comments in the metabox. Also that we can use the disable comments plugin.

Do either of these prevent new pages or posts from creating comment boxes in the future? I.e. I don’t want any new pages or posts to display a comments section.

If you follow the doc Tom provided here:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/removing-comments-completely/#post-81763

Then that will disable comments for any future posts / pages that you create.

Thanks!

You're welcome

If you want to remove the comments section in template and thus completely remove comments for all future and past comments, you can also remove this action:

remove_action( 'generate_after_do_template_part', 'generate_do_comments_template', 15);

However, this will only work once the theme is set up so you should hook it to after_setup_theme.

add_action('after_setup_theme', function(){
    remove_action( 'generate_after_do_template_part', 'generate_do_comments_template', 15);
});

Thanks Gregor! This is what I needed since I'm still using comments (within a GenerateBlocks content template) but needed to unhook completely the comments section at a template level. I appreciate it!