How to remove Leave a Reply/Post a Comment

That is possible. But it’s more of a general WordPress question than a Gray Whale question, specifically.

At any rate, to disable comments by default, go to Settings > Discussion, and disable “Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article,” “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks),” and “Allow people to post comments on new articles.”

As for the contact page, I’m not entirely sure what you mean. I would recommend investigating the Contact Form 7 plugin, which helps you manage contact pages.

I just unchecked these checkboxes, saved but the posts/comments forms still show. I found a way to remove this directly from the code, by removing these lines from the page template (page.php):

if ( comments_open() || ‘0’ != get_comments_number() ) :
comments_template();
endif;

but I was hoping for a more CMS elegant settings.

Another dumb question that may not be specific to Gray Whale:
I’d like to add a portfolio page to this theme. I know how to add a generic page with text & media, but is there a Portfolio design or a plug-in I can use and if so how?

If you have already created your pages, you’ll need to disable comments individually, on a per page basis. To do this, edit your page. Go to ‘Screen Options’ at the top of the edit page and make sure that ‘Discussion’ is checked. This will add a section that should allow you to disable comments.

As to a portfolio, Gray Whale has a portfolio template built in. Create a page, and in the ‘Page Attributes’ section change the template to ‘Portfolio View.’ Then, each page you create as a child of this page will be previewed as a card on the portfolio page. The feature is documented here: https://basilosaur.us/wordpress/themes/graywhale/.

That’s very cool, thank you! Now that I added a Portfolio page with a few child pages, I’d like to make the following changes:

– the titles on the ‘card’ are too big and extend to a 2nd line – how can I decrease the title text/font size (this comes from the title of the child pages)?

– If you click on a ‘card’, you redirect to the child page. Instead, I want to create a link that will take you to a live site. So basically I do not really need to child pages, just the cards with links. Is this possible?