How to disable comments from static front page

Create a custom front-page.php template file in your theme and omit the call to <?php comments_template(); ?>.

HI esmi –

this doesn’t work – I have comments disabled site wide.. all my pages are static (except the one I’ve designated as the blog page) – and on all pages I have (comments are closed) written on the bottom..

but for some reason, I have a comment box sitting on my front page ??

I’ve gone into files and commented out all kinds of comments related stuff but – nothing is taking it off the front page..

this is wordpress v 3.2.1

all the pages use the default template – and the default template(s) doesn’t include <?php comments_template(); ?> – includingpage.php, index.pho, category.php, well.. any of them.. I don’t have any especially custom things in there..

i’ve been searching for a solution half the night.. .. I think I may be going mad ??

thanks for any help

-s123

oh yeah.. here’s the site: https://sympact.cs.bris.ac.uk/

ok.. forget it.. I’ve edited comments.php – it’s a messy hack, but I basically hard-removed any reference to comments or forms or whatever .. it’s very odd that it was displaying on the front only..

is it because <?php comments_template( ”, true ); ?> was in loop_single.php and loop-page.php ? – I had commented it out in loop.php though :-/

thanks anyway!

-s123

ahh.. I discovered that when it’s on the front page, instead of loop.php, or loop_single.php being called it was loop_page … all sorted now

Thanks Stratus123! Worked like a charm!