Disably Documentation

Overview

Turn off comments everywhere or on chosen content types, hide existing ones and remove every comment menu and spam entry point.

• Comments off in one click
• No more spam
• Product reviews kept

Best for: Business sites without comments

Installation

1. Download disably-disable-comments.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Everywhere, or only on chosen content types
• Comment forms and existing comments hidden
• Comments menu, Discussion settings and dashboard widget removed
• Comment feeds, REST endpoint and pingbacks closed
• Comment blocks removed from the editor
• WooCommerce product reviews kept
• Nothing deleted: turn it back on at any time

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [disably_preview]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• disably_active
• disably_sanitize

add_filter( 'disably_active', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• disably_admin_after_form
• disably_admin_before_form
• disably_admin_form_end

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions