question about removing COMMENTS feature

  • Id like to install WORDPRESS on a site and use it just to archive my clients monthly
    ezine newsletters — I have altered the “index.php” to remove the ability to login
    (and removed the REGISTER hyperlink from the wp-login.php script) — but Id also like to
    remove the “COMMENTS” hyperlink (which appears anytime a new post is made) and
    also remove the area that allows visitors to “Leave a comment” as well as the “SAY it” button.
    This way I wont get spammed by the casinos, etc –
    Can anyone point me to anything in the docs specifically that covers this.

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  • Thread Starter iseller

    (@iseller)

    yep thanks – worked perfectly – thats just what it needed.

    To avoid starting a new thread, I’d like to have the comments form still there but the RSS-feed and the TrackBack-sentences out of it. Means: I don’t want the “The URL to TrackBack…”, the “No comments yet” when no comments and the “RSS feed…”, as well as the “Line and paragraph breaks….” sentences. Also, I’d like to get the required “e-mail” out of the form. In which php do I delete/change something?? I tried it several times (in some comment-phps) but ended with total chaos on my site.
    This is what shows up when clicking the “comments”-button:
    Comments ????
    The URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://www.abikea.sonnensegler.de/wp-trackback.php/34
    No comments yet.
    RSS feed for comments on this post.
    Leave a comment
    Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <b>

    <i> <strike>
    Name
    E-mail
    URI
    Your Comment

    In 1.2.2
    Delete these lines from wp-comments.php
    <?php if ('open' == $post->ping_status) { ?>
    <?php _e("The URI to TrackBack this entry is:"); ?> <?php trackback_url() ?>
    <?php } ?>
    The middle one above (it’s line 31)
    <?php comments_rss_link(__("RSS feed for comments on this post.")); ?>
    That one, it’s line 48
    Not sure about the email ….. you do know that helps against comment spam ?

    not really, no. in my experience they just generate junk email addresses.

    thanks, worked perfectly ??
    about the e-mail field, that’s true, I experienced that on my old MT weblog – I had to shut it down due to the MASSES of spam comments (about 500 or so), created with junk e-mail addresses…

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