tmcgonegal

Thanks esmi. I am not sure why you think I am pasting stuff in from Word. I do not. In my last post, for example, I just typed in all that stuff and that’s the way it shows up – missing the blank lines between paragraphs that I had left there. This has always been fine and worked as expected until recently. There must be something I have done to cause this strange change.

Tom

Holy cow!! It worked!! You REALLY know this product, don’t you? I neither know this product nor anything about PHP, but was able to follow your instructions and got the desired results.

I learned from your tip and took it one step further. After applying your recommended changes, I was left with “Posted in Category-name |”. By searching the same 3 files for Posted, I was able to delete the “|” character following “Posted in Category-name”.

Thank you very, very much.

Tom

Thank you again. Can you tell I am a novice? ??

I am not anxious to cause an issue with my theme display, so may I be so bold as to ask a question? If you were to have instead posted only the what was necessary for me to delete, would that still cause issues with my theme display?

Assuming an answer of “no”, would you be so kind as to paste only what is necessary for me to delete?

Based on your earlier post, I’m guessing it’s just this part?

<?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments ?’, ‘1 Comment ?’, ‘% Comments ?’); ?>

Thank you,

Tom

There are 16 php files contained within the defaults theme folder. I copied and pasted the above character string you provided me into the Firefox FIND search box for each of the 16 files, after I opened each one in turn.

I found no hits. Am I doing this correctly? I am using 2.3.3.

Thanks,

tom

When you say remove that “bit”, I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean I should remove that whole string of characters you have specified?

Thank you,

Tom

Thank you for the affirmation. No, I did not understand your reply. Now I do. I use the Default theme. I just checked, and under it are 2 folders and about 18 files. Do I need to check the files under the 2 folders (_vti_cnf & images) or just the 18 under the root defaults directory?

When you say remove that “bit”, I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean I should remove that whole string of characters you have specified?

Thank you,

Tom

I’m not sure I worded my post correctly based on your reply.

I’d like to remove the words “Comments Off” that appear under each post.

Thanks,

Tom

Wow! Thank you so much. That worked perfectly.

Tom

Any chance to get an English translation of this?
I have no knowledge of how to create a new theme and I don’t know PHP/HTML.

Why haven’t the authors documented this if it’s so simple?

There are tons of posts in this forum from people like me who all want the same thing: banish comments completely.

Tom

Quoting from above:

“WordPress: You guys should have an up-front, one-stop check-box: “Turn Off the Commment System Completely”. You are losing people because this can’t be done.”

I couldn’t agree more. I am a newbie and am looking for a simple way to completely disable comments (and any visible reference to them).

Okay, I can understand why some people want Comments enabled, but a blog is a blog (look up the definition in a dictionary) and is meant for posting thoughts, as in a diary.

I also do not want comments at all. I just downloaded WordPress this week (2/12/2008) and have, I assume (how can I tell?), the latest
version.

Thank you,

Tom

I’ve been through every theme file I can find and find no instances of
<div class=”post-commented”><?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments’, ‘1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’); ?></div>

I have the latest version of WordPress, 2.3.3.

Thank you,

Tom

I found the line in single.php and commented it out. No change observed. I can’t find anything else that you speak of in the second half of your post.

Please provide me more help if you can.

Thanks,

Tom

Okay, I get the first part where you name a specific file and a specific line of code, but you ose me on the rest of your post. Would you be kind enough to clarify which files and what it is you are deleting in them?

Thank you,

Tom

My question probably belongs here, but not sure. I am a brand new user, having just downloaded the product yesterday and I just installed it successfully.

I have turned comments off for all articles under Discussion and I have also turned it off as I have made each of my 3 first posts. Apparently it is necessary to do the latter even though I would think the former would override??

Still, “No comments” appears under each post. I would really like it better if “No comments” did not appear at all. Can this be done?

Reason is I want to start out slowly with this. At first I don’t want any comments. I think people will want to click on “No comments” and believe they will be confused seeing :Comments are closed”.

Thank you,

Tom