<div dir="ltr">See the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_open">comments_open()</a> conditional, and <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_comments_number">get_comments_number()</a>, which you can use together, e.g. like so:<div>
<br></div><div>if ( comments_open() || 0 != get_comments_number() ) { comments_template(); }</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:54 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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