Disable Comments

81 Quality Score

Active Installs

23/30

With 100,000 active installs, the plugin has meaningful traction but sits well behind comparable alternatives like Akismet at 6 million installs.

Update Freshness

25/25

The plugin was updated on 2026-05-27 and lists compatibility with WordPress 7.0, indicating the developer is actively shipping updates.

User Rating

11/15

A score of 76 from only 24 ratings suggests a generally favourable reception but with too small a sample to draw firm conclusions about long-term satisfaction.

Support Health

8/15

The score reflects zero support threads and zero resolutions, which gives no signal either way and is a risk if something breaks.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Requires WordPress 3.1 or higher, giving a very low barrier, and testing with WordPress 7.0 contributes to a strong compatibility rating.

Scores higher than 85% of indexed plugins

About

Disable Comments - easy tool to disable comments for your blog posts, and pages. Admin can disable comments in just a few clicks.

Active Installs 100k+

Rating ★★★½ 3.8/5

Last Updated 2026-09-25 7:44am GMT

Requires WordPress 3.1+

Tested Up To 7.1.2

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Disable Comments gives administrators a single-click control panel to turn off commenting across posts, pages, or the entire WordPress site. It also offers tools to bulk delete existing comments, close the comment form, and remove comment-related RSS feed elements. In practice, it is a one-stop switch for sites that want to shut down discussion at the database and theme level without editing code.

Who It's For

This plugin is well suited to corporate, government, legal, nonprofit, and portfolio sites where comment threads add no editorial value and create moderation overhead. It also fits documentation, product announcement, and informational sites where single-direction publishing is the norm. If spam complaints from your contact form are coming through comment URLs, this plugin removes that exposure.

Who Should Skip It

If your site depends on reader engagement, community discussion, or user-generated content, this plugin will eliminate that channel entirely. Sites running forums, membership Q&A, or product reviews should look elsewhere, and developers comfortable editing functions.php may not need the administrative UI at all.

The Bottom Line

Disable Comments delivers a focused, well-maintained tool that does one job and does it across post types and feeds. The 100,000-install base and recent update are positives, but the thin rating pool and zero tracked support threads mean buyers should test on a staging site first. For a corporate or informational site that simply wants comments gone, it is a sensible pick; for engagement-driven sites, look elsewhere.

Pick Akismet if you want to keep comments open but eliminate spam rather than disable the feature entirely.

Classic Widgets 89/100

Pick Classic Widgets if your concern is restoring the legacy widget interface instead of controlling comments.

Disable Comments – Remove Comments & Stop Spam [Multi-Site Support] 88/100

Pick this rival when you run a WordPress Multisite network and need network-wide disabling that the RB version may not handle as cleanly.

Antispam Bee 88/100

Choose Antispam Bee for GDPR-friendly spam filtering that keeps genuine discussion alive without sending data to third parties.

Disable Emojis (GDPR friendly) 84/100

Select Disable Emojis only if performance and privacy concerns around emoji scripts are your actual problem, not comment volume.