Title: Removing comments boxes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Removing comments boxes

 *  [gwendolyntarot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwendolyntarot/)
 * (@gwendolyntarot)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/)
 * Hi there,
    I’m using a theme called Beardsley, which I really like. However, 
   I’d like to take off the Comments boxes, both on the Home page and the other 
   pages, to give it a more professional website feel rather than a blog feel. My
   web address is [http://www.gwendolyntarot.com](http://www.gwendolyntarot.com)–
   are you able to help? Thanks, Gwendolyn.

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 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1805963)
 * When you say comment boxes. You want to remove all references to comments on 
   static pages ?
 *  Thread Starter [gwendolyntarot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwendolyntarot/)
 * (@gwendolyntarot)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806172)
 * Hi there, yes I’d like to remove all of the comments boxes and the references
   to comments, and the ability to comment on the pages/posts at all. Is that possible?
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806173)
 * Open up the template file comments.php and delete the comment function entirely.
 *  Thread Starter [gwendolyntarot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwendolyntarot/)
 * (@gwendolyntarot)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806174)
 * Thanks for that. Sorry to sound stupid, but so do I go to Appearance, Editor,
   then click comments.php under Templates, which takes me to that section of code…
   after this point I’m not sure what to delete as it says all this stuff that says‘
   do not delete this section’ and so on. Am I supposed to delete everything in 
   that box anyway?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806180)
 * Alternative approach:
    Edit the single.php and page.php template files (if they
   exist in your theme) and remove `<?php comments_template();?>`.
 * Next, edit index.php, archive.php, tag.php, category.php and/or loop.php. Remove`
   <?php comments_popup_link();?>`.
 *  Thread Starter [gwendolyntarot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwendolyntarot/)
 * (@gwendolyntarot)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806181)
 * Thank you so much!!! That’s worked perfectly!! Can I ask one more question – 
   on my homepage, it’s got the date that I first created the page at the top of
   the post (www.gwendolyntarot.com). Are you able to tell me where I could go to
   delete that? Again, thanks heaps!!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806182)
 * Try looking for (and removing) `<?php the_date();?>` and/or `<?php the_time();?
   >` in either home.php, front-page.php or page.php. Again the exact template file
   used for the static front page of a site varies from theme to theme.
 *  Thread Starter [gwendolyntarot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwendolyntarot/)
 * (@gwendolyntarot)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806183)
 * That worked – thanks heaps!!! Much appreciated 🙂
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806184)
 * You’re welcome. 🙂
 *  [bossruby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bossruby/)
 * (@bossruby)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-comments-boxes/#post-1806347)
 * Hi Guys, i am having a similar issue, i have a static page with a comment box
   at the bottom of my page, i want to keep the comments box on the other pages 
   but remove the comments box from the static page. Could you please show me how
   to do this, i tried the above but it removed the entire comments field on all
   pages. I would like to have it removed from the static page only, any help greatly
   appriciated. Thanks

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