Title: Remove Comment boxes completely
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Remove Comment boxes completely

 *  [heatheraglow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heatheraglow/)
 * (@heatheraglow)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-comment-boxes-completely/)
 * Hello,
    I would like to remove the comment boxes out of the theme altogether.
   I have turned off all the comments under the WordPress Dashboard and they still
   show. I turned off all the categories and it still showed the comment areas. 
   I then turned on “persistent mode” and the comment areas still remain.
 * I have also turned off the comments through a plug in called “disable comments”-
   and they still show.
 * I even added an additional plug in called, “Ultra Hide Comment Box”, and though
   everything is enabled, comments are still showing (see attachment).
 * Can you tell me how to completely remove the comments?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-comment-boxes-completely/#post-3590008)
 * you will need to search through all the theme’s templates and remove `comments_template()`;
   also possibly remove other code with `'comment'` in the function name, such as`
   comments_popup_link()` and/or `comments_number()` etc.
 * also possibly edit comments.php, and add `return;` as the first code immediately
   after any commented section at the start.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-comment-boxes-completely/#post-3590008)
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