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.
Lock down the WordPress comment attack surface with layered protections while preserving existing comment data.
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.
Auto-Close keeps your site clean by automatically closing comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks—so you can focus on content, not cleanup.
Hide Trackbacksv1.1.8
Prevents trackbacks and pingbacks from showing up as comments on posts.
Kama SpamBlockv2.0.0
Light and invisible protection against basic automated comment spam. Pings and trackbacks check for real backlinks.
Disable comments everywhere or per post type, clean the admin, block spam via XML-RPC & REST, remove pingbacks, and bulk-delete comments.
Detects internal links in posts and automatically inserts a pingback-style comment on each linked post. No XML-RPC required.