Remove comment box and meta date under photos in gallery

What gallery plugin are you using?

No plug-in, just using the built in ‘create gallery’ option when adding a photo to a page.

By default, WordPress does not produce any urls with fragments like #jp-carousel-399. Looks like this is being added by your commercial theme. I’m sorry but as you are using a commercial theme, you need to seek support from the theme’s developer/vendor. We do not support commercial products here.
Try https://colorlabsproject.com/support/

Oh, darn. I’m using a free template with very limited support. Thought these things were wordpress code rather than the template developer’s.

Oh well, thanks for the responses.

Actually, can I continue this discussion…

I’ve just changed my theme, and am now using WordPress’s own “2012” theme. Same thing happening.

Then you are using a gallery or lightbox plugin, yes? If you intend to continue using the 2012 theme, then you have two options:

1. Disable comments globally and then enable comments on a per-post basis by unchecking “Allow people to post comments on new articles” in Settings -> Discussion. Then for each published Page or Post, checking “Allow comments” in each case. If you do not see this pane, click Screen Options at the very top of the page and check “Discussion”.

2. Creating a child theme, adding a copy of image.php to the new child, editing it and removing <?php comments_template(); ?>.

The only plug-in I have is Jetpack.

Then I assume that Jetpack is handling your galleries. Either way, you still only have those two options.

Aha. Yes, it’s jetpack – the gallery option there is called “carousel”. Have managed to disable metadata, will carry on fiddling to rid myself of the comment box. (Disabling comments globally as you suggested doens’t seem to have worked.)