Title: Really Simple Disable Comments
Author: NEXTFLY® Web Design
Published: <strong>13. Januar 2025</strong>
Last modified: 9. September 2026

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# Really Simple Disable Comments

 Von [NEXTFLY® Web Design](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nextfly/)

[Herunterladen](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/really-simple-disable-comments.0.5.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-disable-comments/#description)
 * [Rezensionen](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-disable-comments/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-disable-comments/#installation)
 * [Entwicklung](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-disable-comments/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/really-simple-disable-comments/)

## Beschreibung

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)

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/really-simple-disable-comments`
    directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‚Plugins‘ screen in WordPress
 3. That’s it! No configuration needed.

## FAQ

### Does this plugin remove existing comments?

No, this plugin only hides existing comments and prevents new comments. It does 
not delete any data from your database.

### Will this plugin disable comments on specific post types only?

No, this plugin is designed to completely disable comments across all post types
for simplicity.

### Does this affect my site’s performance?

No, the plugin is very lightweight and only adds the necessary hooks to disable 
comment functionality.

### Does this break WordPress 7.1 editorial Notes?

No. Editorial Notes are private annotations collaborators leave on a post, and WordPress
serves them over the same REST route as public comments. The plugin keeps that route
available for Notes only, so Notes keep working while public comment data stays 
blocked. Use the `rsdc_allow_editorial_notes` filter to turn Notes off as well. 
The route itself stays registered, so it is still listed at `/wp-json/wp/v2` and
still answers `OPTIONS` with the comment schema; every request that is not Note 
traffic gets the same `404 rest_no_route` as before.

### What happens to my comment feeds?

/comments/feed/ and per-post comment feeds return 404, and their autodiscovery links
are removed from the page head. Anyone still subscribed to a comment feed will stop
receiving it. Your main content feed at `/feed/` is untouched. Use the `rsdc_disable_comment_feeds`
filter to keep comment feeds enabled.

### My theme’s comment markup used to be in the page source. Where did it go?

On block themes the plugin now stops comment blocks producing output at all, rather
than only hiding them with CSS. Commenter names, comment text and avatar URLs no
longer ship with the page, so scrapers and crawlers cannot read them. Use the `rsdc_disable_comment_block_output`
filter to restore the old behavior.

## Rezensionen

Zu diesem Plugin liegen noch keine Rezensionen vor.

## Mitwirkende und Entwickler

„Really Simple Disable Comments“ ist Open-Source-Software. Folgende Menschen haben
an diesem Plugin mitgewirkt:

Mitwirkende

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## Änderungsprotokoll

#### 0.5.0

 * Enqueue the front-end hide styles on wp_enqueue_scripts so they print inside 
   instead of after the page content
 * Stop comment-related blocks rendering at all, so commenter names, comment text
   and avatar URLs no longer appear in the page source on block themes
 * Comment feeds (/comments/feed/ and per-post comment feeds) now return 404, and
   their autodiscovery links are removed from
 * Keep /wp/v2/comments registered so WordPress 7.1 editorial Notes keep working,
   while all other comment REST reads and writes still return 404 rest_no_route
 * Added developer filters: rsdc_allow_editorial_notes, rsdc_disable_comment_feeds,
   rsdc_disable_comment_block_output, rsdc_comment_block_types

#### 0.4.0

 * Block direct comment submission to wp-comments-post.php with a 403 response
 * Remove /wp/v2/comments and /wp/v2/comments/ REST API endpoints
 * Normalize comment_status and ping_status to „closed“ in post REST responses
 * Remove the replies HAL link from post REST responses
 * Remove XML-RPC pingback.ping and pingback.extensions.getPingbacks methods
 * Strip X-Pingback response header to remove pingback autodiscovery
 * Added developer filters: rsdc_block_comment_submission, rsdc_rest_endpoints, 
   rsdc_xmlrpc_methods, rsdc_rest_post_response

#### 0.3.0

 * Added WordPress 7.0 compatibility updates for comment-related block inserter 
   removal
 * Hardened dashboard comment count cleanup for the refreshed WordPress 7.0 admin
   UI
 * Removed classic editor comment-related metaboxes so Screen Options cannot restore
   them on edit screens

#### 0.2.1

 * Changed `wp_redirect()` to `wp_safe_redirect()` for better security when redirecting
   from comments admin page

#### 0.2.0

 * Added hiding of comment counts from „At a Glance“ dashboard widget
 * Added hiding of „Recent Comments“ section from Activity dashboard widget

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.5.0**
 *  Zuletzt aktualisiert **vor 2 Wochen**
 *  Aktive Installationen **500+**
 *  WordPress-Version ** 5.8 oder höher **
 *  Getestet bis **7.1.2**
 *  PHP-Version ** 7.4 oder höher **
 *  Sprache
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-disable-comments/)
 * Schlagwörter
 * [comments](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[disable comments](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/disable-comments/)
   [disable pingbacks](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/disable-pingbacks/)
   [disable trackbacks](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/disable-trackbacks/)
 *  [Erweiterte Ansicht](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-disable-comments/advanced/)

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## Mitwirkende

 *   [ NEXTFLY® Web Design ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nextfly/)

## Support

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