Hide Comments Feature
Remove comments functionality and related in your Wordpress instance.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.5★ from 6
- Active installs
- 1k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 28 Nov 2017
- Added
- Nov 2010
- Requires WP
- 3.4
- Tested up to
- WP 3.5.2
- Downloads
- 51,253
Our analysis
AI-assistedHide Comments Feature is a WordPress plugin designed to completely remove comments from both the admin panel and the front end of your site. It operates without requiring any configuration, allowing you to install it and have comments disappear immediately.
This plugin is suitable for users who do not need the comments feature for various reasons. It uses action hooks and CSS techniques to achieve this functionality while ensuring compatibility with future updates of WordPress and other plugins.
Best for: This plugin suits users who want to disable comments on their WordPress site.
What it does well
- ✓Removes all traces of comments from the site
- ✓No configuration needed after installation
- ✓Compatible with future updates of WordPress
- ✓Provides custom hooks for advanced users
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
Where it falls short
- •Limited information about features and usage
- •Last updated in November 2017
- •Tested only up to WordPress version 3.5.2
Verdict
Hide Comments Feature is straightforward for those looking to eliminate comments without hassle, though its age and limited updates may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
Vitor Carvalho's own description of Hide Comments Feature, lightly tidied.
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.
Provided Custom Hooks
This plugin provides 4 custom hooks you may play if you need more substance in your theme.
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.
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.
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