Grade B

Disable Comments

Name: Disable Comments
Rating: 3.8 (23 reviews)
Author: rbplugins

⤓ Download v1.0.27 on WordPress.org ↗

by rbpluginsupdated 2026-05-27🌿The Dependable Sort

The quiet helper that started shouting in your admin sidebar.

HealthyGrowingPoor rating

71/100

The plugin works well but recent ads and menu changes have upset users.

Loved19/40

Trustworthy13/15

Fair & Honest10/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum11/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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// Close comments on the front-end
add_filter( 'comments_open', '__return_false', 20 );
add_filter( 'pings_open',    '__return_false', 20 );

// Hide existing comments
add_filter( 'comments_array', '__return_empty_array', 20 );

// Remove comments from admin menu and bar
add_action( 'admin_menu', function () {
    remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' );
} );
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', function ( $bar ) {
    $bar->remove_node( 'comments' );
}, 999 );

// Remove comments from dashboard
add_action( 'admin_init', function () {
    remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_recent_comments', 'dashboard', 'normal' );

    // Disable support for comments on all post types
    foreach ( get_post_types() as $post_type ) {
        if ( post_type_supports( $post_type, 'comments' ) ) {
            remove_post_type_support( $post_type, 'comments' );
            remove_post_type_support( $post_type, 'trackbacks' );
        }
    }
} );

// Disable comment feeds
add_action( 'do_feed_rss2_comments',  '__return_false', 1 );
add_action( 'do_feed_atom_comments',  '__return_false', 1 );

// Remove X-Pingback header
add_filter( 'wp_headers', function ( $headers ) {
    unset( $headers['X-Pingback'] );
    return $headers;
} );

Keep in mind:The snippet does not replicate the selective per-post-type disable option or the Discussion settings-page toggle found in the plugin UI.

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Active installs

~155,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+

→ on track for 200k+in ~1 year

Rating

3.7★

23 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+27%

Growing fast

203 → 258 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORverified rating is 3.76★

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Growing fast · +27% in the last year

203/day a year ago→258/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Disable Comments is a well-regarded plugin for its simplicity and ease of use, but a significant number of users abandoned it after a recent update introduced a prominent, brightly colored root-level admin menu item and advertisements, which felt at odds with the plugin's single-purpose nature.

What people like

+Simple, easy to set up with no extra configuration needed×5
+Core functionality of disabling comments works reliably×4
+Actively maintained and still receiving updates

Common complaints

−A recent update added a prominent, brightly colored root-level admin menu item, which many users found intrusive and unnecessary for a single-purpose plugin (since 1.0.14)×7
−Advertisements were introduced into the settings page, prompting users to seek alternatives (since 1.0.14)×3
−Plugin only hides comment controls in the admin UI and blocks front-end display rather than truly disabling comments at the database level
−Re-enabling comments does not work correctly

Review trustMostly organic

3.76★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.70★
9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2024-02-152025-04-102026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 23 total

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Latest reviews · 23 analyzed

2025-09-25★★★★★Still working!tranxhdr
2024-10-02★★★★★Enable comments – not works [email protected]
2024-02-13★★★★★Works like a charm, easy setup chakmear
2024-01-24★★★★★Doesn't actually disable comments Aurovrata Venet
2023-04-29★★★★★A+ plugin nomishi
2023-04-24★★★★★Very helpful and simple plugin Jacke D
2023-03-18★★★★★Thank you! Very helpful!Dave Mont
2022-12-19★★★★★Very simple and effective DerricksWebStudio
2022-05-04★★★★★Great plugin hugo017
2022-03-24★★★★★Works as intended Gregorius

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-27v1.0.27
2025-12-03v1.0.26
2025-09-25v1.0.25
2024-12-02v1.0.24
2024-04-08v1.0.23
2023-05-18v1.0.22
2022-12-12v1.0.21
2022-10-11v1.0.20

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

226

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

259

Prior 7-day baseline

234

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

17,612

Mean release-day peak (30d)

1,176

Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)

-12.7%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

50%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

3.14

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

65%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

3.70 → 3.76★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered