21 thoughts on “WordPress plugin: Remove “Comments are closed””

1. Meghashyam January 22, 2012 at 3:53 am

   I intstalled this Plugin. The “Comments Are Closed” tag still remains on my blog. Can you please help here.

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   1. PerS Post authorJanuary 22, 2012 at 12:03 pm

      Hi,

      Where? I had a look at your blog but couldn’t find it.

      If your blog theme isn’t localized, my plugin will not work.

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      1. Meghashyam January 22, 2012 at 3:05 pm

         Please click on this link below. Go to the bottom of the post & you will see the “Comments are Closed”.

         http://www.meghashyam.com/2012/01/19/chocolates-grown-ups/

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         1. PerS Post authorJanuary 22, 2012 at 6:02 pm

            My plugin, using gettext, search for the exact string ‘Comments are closed.’ (including the period), this is the standard text used by WordPress. I suggest that you remove the period from the string in my plugin (line 15 above).

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2. Alex February 1, 2012 at 5:16 am

   If I want my WP theme to be only English do i need to localize to? I am a very beginner and the article you are referring for localization is too difficult to implement. I just want to remove comments are closed without touching any code. why can;t i do it? thank you.

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   1. PerS Post authorFebruary 1, 2012 at 7:18 am

      Hi Alex,

      No you don’t have to localize it yourself, but you must choose a theme that has localization code. If the text in the theme is wrapped in __() or _e() functions, you are fine.

      If you give me the url to where you found the theme, I can check this for you.

      Btw, the default themes, Twenty Ten an Twenty Eleven, has localization code.

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3. Joe February 17, 2012 at 8:44 pm

   I installed, it, on newest version of WP, it appears it set my site to use a static home page, then I tried to de activate it, and it seems on de activation, it does not revert everything it did?

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   1. PerS Post authorFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:26 pm

      It doesn’t do anything to wordpress db etc, so turning it off will remove it.

      What’s the theme you’re running ? Are you running any caching plugins ? Any other new plugins added lately?

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4. Joe February 17, 2012 at 10:20 pm

   Hi. I tried it with the mainstream (woo themes) theme and it did not work.
   No no other plugins, no caching plugins. Yours is the only one activated.
   So I take it, when you de activate it, it does not revert the changes it made? Tks

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   1. PerS Post authorFebruary 18, 2012 at 4:58 pm

      Most of the themes have their “internal plugins” aka THEMEFOLDER/functions.php, so for me to be able to see if there’s a conflict, I need to know which woo theme you’re using.

      The plugin (see code above) only filters gettext, the only reason that it doesn’t revert when you switch the plugin off is that your wordpress / theme is caching the output.

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5. Thierry Martin November 12, 2012 at 4:02 am

   Doesn’t work with the Flexibility theme, is it because they use different text – “Comment Off”

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   1. PerS Post authorNovember 12, 2012 at 8:13 am

      You can change the text using the plugin editor (/wp-admin/plugin-editor.php?file=remove-comments-are-closed/ps_remove_comments_are_closed.php)

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   2. PerS Post authorNovember 13, 2012 at 2:43 pm

      ..or, instead of using my plugin, you can add the following to the (child ) theme functions.php:

      PHP

      add_filter('gettext', 'ps_remove_comments_are_closed', 20, 3); function ps_remove_comments_are_closed($translated_text, $untranslated_text, $domain) { if ( $untranslated_text == 'Comment Off' ) { return ''; } return $translated_text; }

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      add_filter('gettext', 'ps_remove_comments_are_closed', 20, 3);    function ps_remove_comments_are_closed($translated_text, $untranslated_text, $domain) {     if ( $untranslated_text == 'Comment Off' ) {         return '';     }     return $translated_text; }

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6. René December 27, 2012 at 5:06 pm

   The Plugin Spam Free WordPress has a comments.php file in it’s folder. Removing that file solved the problem on my blog

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7. lishai December 28, 2012 at 8:54 pm

   Thanks for the plugin by it does not working for me. Using template monster’s template

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   1. PerS Post authorDecember 28, 2012 at 11:24 pm

      “not working for me” .. what’s not working ? If the text in monster’s template is different than the default; instead of using the plugin, add the routine to your (child) theme functions.php as described above

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8. lishai January 3, 2013 at 2:27 am

   Thank you for the reply but I’m not a programmer and I thought this plugin will do the work without getting into the code. “Not working” as this plugin does not remove the comments text. Can you assist?

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9. stefano valentino March 27, 2013 at 9:27 am

   Hi,
   I installed the pluign but the text “comments closed” still shows up.
   My theme is Bombax and I have no idea if it is localized or not.
   Here you are my website:
   http://www.freereporter.info
   I would be grateful if you could help

   Cheers

   Stefano

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   1. PerS Post authorMarch 27, 2013 at 11:32 am

      Stefano, please read the comments above.

      I have explain how to check if your theme uses gettext.

      The plugin replaces this ‘Comments are closed.’ with blank, if the theme author chose to write something else, instead of using my plugin, add code to your THEMEFOLDER/functions.php with the text string you want to remove.

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10. martin hugels March 30, 2013 at 7:28 pm

    Crap.
    Destroyed everything. Had to install everything new.

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    1. PerS Post authorMarch 30, 2013 at 7:47 pm

       There is no reason why this simple plugin will destroy anything. Read the code and you’ll see that I’m right.

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