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Fully Disable Comments Site-Wide

Removes comment support from posts and pages, and hides the Comments menu from both the admin sidebar and the admin bar.

php
/**
 * Remove comments
 */
 
// Removes from admin menu
function my_remove_admin_menus() {
    remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' );
}

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'my_remove_admin_menus' );

// Removes from post and pages
function remove_comment_support() {
    remove_post_type_support( 'post', 'comments' );
    remove_post_type_support( 'page', 'comments' );
}

add_action( 'init', 'remove_comment_support', 100 );

// Removes from admin bar
function mytheme_admin_bar_render() {
    global $wp_admin_bar;
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'comments' );
}

add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'mytheme_admin_bar_render' );
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