Sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly. As I proceed with my customisation process of this site you are going to get all the goodies that took me some time to figure out. You will either get some good information that helps to solve the same problems I encountered or you will get to say, “Dude, I can’t believe you didn’t know that”. Well this might be one of those times. In my defense, I have searched for the last couple of days through the Thesis forum and some Google searches for the answer and just now found it.
What I have been trying to do is set up an archive page. Setting it up was simple enough. You create a page in wordpress and utilizing the Attributes section on the right hand side bar of edit/page mode under Template you choose – Archive. When I looked at the archive page there was a comment box at the bottom of it. I did not want the comment box on the Archive page – don’t need one.
I started my quest on how to remove the comments box from the archive page and found a number of possible solutions – none of them seemed to solve the problem cleanly. Some of them involved some coding of css to hide the comments box because the discussion in the Forum talked about no way to unhook the box within Thesis. I searched a little deeper but never really found a discussion 100% about what I was trying to do. Finally I just started sifting through all of the threads and found one Titled – Want to remove comments from Home and About Pages. Hmmm – seems like the same problem. Archives is a page so I gave it a try and what do you know – there was the answer. Simple — WOW.
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Go to the edit mode of the page you want to remove the comments box from and way down at the bottom is a section called – Discussion – In that section you can choose to accept comments or pings. Uncheck the comments box and save the page and its gone from the page.
Simple as that.
If this article helped you in any way or you have a comment about my inabilities or have a tip of your own you would like to share — Please leave a comment. There IS a comment box on this page. Happy Blogging.
Amendment:
To remove the note
“comments on this entry are closed”
add this code
.custom .comments_closed p {display: none ;}
{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }
I can’t figure out how to get a comment box to appear on my site. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions.
Have you watched this video on making sure the comments are activated on your site. http://www.sagaciousnews.com/wordpress-comments-settings/
Hi Todd, doing it this way, my post reads “Comments Closed.” I don’t want that. Any ideas? Probably a Hide tag? Thanks in advance.
Peggy,
Thanks for the comment. You know, I never even noticed that before you pointed it out. Here is the fix though.
Put this code in your custom.css
.custom .comments_closed p {display: none ;}
I just added it to my custom.css file and it works brilliantly.
Thanks so much
Hi,
I tried adding .custom .comments_closed p {display: none ;} to my customs.css but it doesnt seem to do anything.
I am completely new to all of this, and simply have no idea.
Thank you so much
Claudia,
Tell me what you are trying to do and I can guide you.
Todd
Hi Todd,
I have watch the video at http://www.sagaciousnews.com/wordpress-comments-settings/. I have done all the necessary step but it seems that the comment box still doesn’t appear. I used thesis theme 1.0.1. I hope you could help me.
Thanks
Kool,
I would suggest upgrading to the current version of Thesis. If that does not solve the problem then turn off all of your plug ins and see if the problem is resolved. If it does then turn plug-ins on one at a time to see which one is causing the problem. Let me know if this solves the problem