Title: Delete comments.php??
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Delete comments.php??

 *  [indopulsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indopulsa/)
 * (@indopulsa)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-commentsphp/)
 * Can anyone help me? I just finished making a [blog](http://indopulsa.net) using
   magazine basic theme. I want my blog appear as a website. In this case, may I
   delete comments.php? Whether by removing comments.php will affect seo? or there
   may be other options? sorry, I am a newcomer. I do not understand much about 
   the weblog. thanks

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 *  [Matthew Gedeon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmdrmatt/)
 * (@cmdrmatt)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-commentsphp/#post-2703351)
 * That would be the hard way to do it. What you want is pretty common, so WordPress
   built it in. What you need to do is go to the settings area and click on “discussion”.
   Now uncheck the third option which should be “Allow people to post comments on
   new articles”.
    This gets you half way there. New posts won’t have a comment 
   section, but you will still need to tell the older posts and pages to not allow
   comments. To do this, go to the posts page, and click the checkmark for all the
   posts. (the one at the top selects all of them at once instead of you having 
   to check each one.) Then, go up to the box at top and select “edit” then you 
   have to click the “apply” button just an inch to the right. This will open up
   a box which all kinds of things you can do to the selected posts en mass. Just
   uncheck the “allow comments” box and update on the bottom right and you’re all
   set. If you don’t want pages to have comments either, go the pages list and do
   the same thing. Have fun!
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-commentsphp/#post-2703398)
 * if disabling and un-allowing the comments _**using the dashboard options **_does
   not work efficiently enough, deleting comments.php will not help much as there
   is still the default fallback in /wp-inlcudes/theme-compat/comments.php which
   will be used instead.
 * rather try to locate and delete all ‘comments_template()’ codes from your themes
   templates; plus possibly any other references to any functions which have the
   name ‘comment’ in them, such as ‘comments_popup_link()’ etc.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-commentsphp/#post-2703398)
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