Really Simple Disable Comments

Really Simple Disable Comments is a lightweight plugin that completely disables WordPress comments functionality with a single activation. No configuration needed!

Features

• Disables comments on all post types

• Removes comment-related UI elements

• Disables trackbacks and pingbacks

• Blocks direct comment submission to wp-comments-post.php (403 response)

• Blocks the comment REST API endpoints (/wp/v2/comments), while keeping WordPress 7.1 editorial Notes working

• Stops comment blocks rendering at all on block themes, so comment text never reaches the page source

• Disables comment feeds and removes their autodiscovery links

• Disables XML-RPC pingback methods

• Strips X-Pingback response header

• Removes comment-related admin menu items and dashboard widgets

• Hides comment counts from dashboard “At a Glance” widget

• Hides “Recent Comments” section from dashboard Activity widget

• Disables all comment-related Gutenberg blocks

• Clean and efficient code with no settings required

What Gets Disabled?

• Comment forms and displays

• Direct comment submission via wp-comments-post.php

• Comment REST API reads and writes (/wp/v2/comments), except WordPress 7.1 editorial Notes

• Comment block output on block themes (markup is removed, not just hidden)

• Comment feeds (/comments/feed/ and per-post comment feeds) and their links

• XML-RPC pingback methods

• X-Pingback response header

• Admin menu items and dashboard widgets

• Comment-related Gutenberg blocks

• Trackbacks and pingbacks

• Comment-related UI elements in themes

Developer Friendly

The plugin includes various filters and actions for developers to customize its behavior:

• rsdc_post_type – Filter the post type before removing comment support

• rsdc_comments_status – Filter the comments status

• rsdc_hide_existing_comments – Filter the hidden comments array

• rsdc_hide_ui_styles – Filter the CSS used to hide comment UI elements

• rsdc_block_editor_settings – Filter the block editor settings

• rsdc_allowed_blocks – Filter the allowed Gutenberg blocks

• rsdc_block_comment_submission – Control whether direct comment submission is blocked (return false to allow)

• rsdc_rest_endpoints – Filter the REST endpoints array during REST bootstrap (comment endpoints are only unset when rsdc_allow_editorial_notes returns false)

• rsdc_xmlrpc_methods – Filter the XML-RPC methods array after pingback methods are removed

• rsdc_rest_post_response – Filter the normalized WP_REST_Response for post objects

• rsdc_allow_editorial_notes – Return false to unregister the comment REST routes entirely, as in 0.4.0 (also disables WordPress 7.1 editorial Notes)

• rsdc_disable_comment_feeds – Return false to leave comment feeds and their autodiscovery links alone

• rsdc_disable_comment_block_output – Return false to let comment-related blocks render their markup again

• rsdc_comment_block_types – Filter the list of comment-related block types the plugin hides and suppresses (register it on plugins_loaded so it applies before the first lookup)