<div dir="ltr">There are a couple of way users could do it.<div><br></div><div>Either use a plugin like <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/">http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/</a></div><div>

<br></div><div>See the bulk edit option in this article.</div><div><a href="http://blog.vickyteinaki.com/how-to-turn-off-comments-in-wordpress/">http://blog.vickyteinaki.com/how-to-turn-off-comments-in-wordpress/</a><br>
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<div><br></div><div>You can also increase the number of posts/pages display from 20 to any number in the screen options.</div><div><a href="http://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/getting-to-know-wordpress/screen-options/">http://make.wordpress.org/support/user-manual/getting-to-know-wordpress/screen-options/</a><br>

</div><div><br></div><div>If an option was added to the theme then it would only not display the comments but not disable them so when switching themes they would be visable again.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 April 2014 06:13, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Not really sure what would be the point of having something like that in Theme Options.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra">

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On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:00 PM, carolina poena <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myazalea@hotmail.com" target="_blank">myazalea@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





<div><div dir="ltr">But if the end user turns them off, they can't choose to hide the comments that has already been posted?<br><br> <br><div><hr>Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:57:06 -0500<br>From: <a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a><br>


To: <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] disabling or hiding comments<div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">


Comments should be handled by the core only. No Theme Options :)</div></div><div><br><br><div>On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:54 PM, carolina poena <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myazalea@hotmail.com" target="_blank">myazalea@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>



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<div><div dir="ltr">Disabling comments is plugin territory, but what about an option to simply hide the comments? This would be allowed, correct?<br>                                         </div></div>
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