A simple and lightweight plugin to completely disable comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks across your WordPress site.
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Effortlessly disable all comments and trackback functionality across your entire WordPress site by activating this plugin.
Auto-Close keeps your site clean by automatically closing comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks—so you can focus on content, not cleanup.
Completely disables comments, trackbacks, and avatars site-wide or network-wide with a single toggle. Multisite compatible.
Add Pingbacksv1.2.3
Manually add pingbacks to any post, page, or custom post type in WordPress.
Lock down the WordPress comment attack surface with layered protections while preserving existing comment data.
Hide Trackbacksv1.1.8
Prevents trackbacks and pingbacks from showing up as comments on posts.
Detects internal links in posts and automatically inserts a pingback-style comment on each linked post. No XML-RPC required.
Disables comment functionality and hides all existing comments from your WordPress website.
Completely disables all backend comment submissions (wp-comments-post.php, REST API, XML-RPC) to stop ghost comment spam.