[wp-hackers] Disable comments on pages post type

[Robert Lusby]

Hi Chris, John,

Thanks! Though removing the comment line from page.php would still show 
the comments box in the back-end however, hence the problem.

I'll try your method John, and report back on results.

Thanks again,
Rob

On 26/05/2011 15:19, Christopher Ross wrote:
> Hi Rob, John's point that remove_post_type_support( 'page', 'comments' ); will remove them is a great way to do it, except that it adds code to the work WP has to do as opposed to removing the line takes away from the workload.
>
> I'd just open page.php and remove the comment line if you never want it to be seen.
>
> Chris
>
> On 2011-05-26, at 10:53 AM, Robert Lusby wrote:
>
>> What's the "best practise" way to disable comments support on the "page" post types?
>>
>> When creating a custom post type, you specify:
>> register_post_type('example', array('supports' =>  array('title','comments')));
>> thus creating the comments functionality on the front-end, and the back-end. Removing this, would remove the comments box from the back-end, as well as not accepting posts on the front-end.
>>
>> How do you modify the page post type to disable comments support?
>>
>> I know you can obviously just "untick" the box under discussion, but I'm looking to remove "comments" support from "page" post types altogether ...
>>
>> TIA,
>> Rob
>>
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