Eliminar completamente los comentarios

No me refiero a eliminarlos de la plantilla para que no puedan comentar, ni siquiera a desactivarlos desde los ajustes de WordPress, me refiero a eliminar completamente los comentarios y cualquier referencia, incluso visual, a su existencia.

Está claro, los comentarios son parte de los blogs, esencia misma de la Web 2.0, pero hay ocasiones en que – sobre todo para trabajos a clientes – en que es posible que quieras quitar cualquier atisbo de que tal cosa siquiera existe.

En este raro, pero probable, caso, Frank ha elaborado un plugin cuyo código quita toda referencia a los comentarios, vamos, que dejan de existir en tu WordPress, no verá rastro ni cita alguna a los mismos.

Solo tienes que guardar este código con el nombre que quieras, subirlo a la carpeta ‘plugins’ de tu instalación de WordPress, activarlo y habrás eliminado totalmente los comentarios de tu WordPress.

<?php
/**
 * Plugin para quitar todas las funcionalidades y vistas de comentarios de WordPress.
 *
 * Plugin Name: Eliminar comentarios completamente
 * Plugin URI:  https://github.com/bueltge/Remove-Comments-Absolutely
 * Text Domain: remove_comments_absolute
 * Domain Path: /languages
 * Description: Desactiva todo lo relacionado con comentarios de tu instalación de WordPress.
 * Author:      Frank Bültge
 * Version:     1.5.3
 * Last access: 2017-01-08
 * License:     GPLv3+
 * Author URI:  http://bueltge.de/
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

if ( ! class_exists( 'Remove_Comments_Absolute' ) ) {
	add_action( 'plugins_loaded', array( 'Remove_Comments_Absolute', 'get_object' ) );

	/**
	 * Class Remove_Comments_Absolute.
	 *
	 * Hint: It is a God class, but a newer version is a lot of work.
	 * Maybe other users will refactoring the plugin for better code, that we can also include tests.
	 */
	class Remove_Comments_Absolute {

		/**
		 * Class object.
		 *
		 * @var null
		 */
		static private $classobj;

		/**
		 * Back end pages for the hint, that comment are inactive.
		 *
		 * @var array
		 */
		private static $comment_pages = array(
			'comment.php',
			'edit-comments.php',
			'moderation.php',
			'options-discussion.php',
		);

		/**
		 * Constructor, init on defined hooks of WP and include second class.
		 *
		 * @access  public
		 * @since   0.0.1
		 * @uses    add_filter, add_action
		 */
		public function __construct() {

			// Remove update check.
			add_filter( 'site_transient_update_plugins', array( $this, 'remove_update_nag' ) );

			add_filter( 'the_posts', array( $this, 'set_comment_status' ) );

			add_filter( 'comments_open', array( $this, 'close_comments' ), 20, 2 );
			add_filter( 'pings_open', array( $this, 'close_comments' ), 20, 2 );

			add_action( 'admin_init', array( $this, 'remove_comments' ) );
			add_action( 'admin_menu', array( $this, 'remove_menu_items' ) );
			add_filter( 'add_menu_classes', array( $this, 'add_menu_classes' ) );

			// Remove items in dashboard.
			add_action( 'admin_footer-index.php', array( $this, 'remove_dashboard_comments_areas' ) );

			// Change admin bar items.
			add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', array( $this, 'remove_admin_bar_comment_items' ), 999 );
			add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', array( $this, 'remove_network_comment_items' ), 999 );

			// Replace the theme's or the core comments template with an empty one.
			add_filter( 'comments_template', array( $this, 'comments_template' ) );

			// Remove comment feed.
			remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 );
			remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 );
			add_action( 'wp_head', array( $this, 'feed_links' ), 2 );
			add_action( 'wp_head', array( $this, 'feed_links_extra' ), 3 );
			add_action( 'template_redirect', array( $this, 'filter_query' ), 9 );
			add_filter( 'wp_headers', array( $this, 'filter_wp_headers' ) );

			// Remove default comment widget.
			add_action( 'widgets_init', array( $this, 'unregister_default_wp_widgets' ), 1 );

			// Remove comment options in profile page.
			add_action( 'personal_options', array( $this, 'remove_profile_items' ) );

			// Replace xmlrpc methods.
			add_filter( 'xmlrpc_methods', array( $this, 'xmlrpc_replace_methods' ) );

			// Set content of <wfw:commentRss> to empty string.
			add_filter( 'post_comments_feed_link', '__return_empty_string' );

			// Set content of <slash:comments> to empty string.
			add_filter( 'get_comments_number', '__return_empty_string' );

			// Return empty string for post comment link, which takes care of <comments>.
			add_filter( 'get_comments_link', '__return_empty_string' );

			// Remove comments popup.
			add_filter( 'query_vars', array( $this, 'filter_query_vars' ) );

			// Remove 'Discussion Settings' help tab from post edit screen.
			add_action( 'admin_head-post.php', array( $this, 'remove_help_tabs' ), 10, 3 );

			// Remove rewrite rules used for comment feed archives.
			add_filter( 'comments_rewrite_rules', '__return_empty_array', 99 );
			// Remove rewrite rules for the legacy comment feed and post type comment pages.
			add_filter( 'rewrite_rules_array', array( $this, 'filter_rewrite_rules_array' ), 99 );

			// Return an object with each comment stat set to zero.
			add_filter( 'wp_count_comments', array( $this, 'filter_count_comments' ) );
		}

		/**
		 * Handler for the action 'init'. Instantiates this class.
		 *
		 * @access public
		 * @since  0.0.1
		 * @return null|Remove_Comments_Absolute $classobj object
		 */
		public static function get_object() {

			if ( NULL === self::$classobj ) {
				self::$classobj = new self;
			}

			return self::$classobj;
		}

		/**
		 * Disable plugin update notifications.
		 *
		 * @since  1.0.0  04/02/2012
		 * @link   http://dd32.id.au/2011/03/01/disable-plugin-update-notification-for-a-specific-plugin-in-wordpress-3-1/
		 *
		 * @param array|string $value
		 *
		 * @return array|string $value
		 */
		public function remove_update_nag( $value ) {

			if ( isset( $value->response[ plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ] )
				&& ! empty( $value->response[ plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ] )
			) {
				unset( $value->response[ plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ] );
			}

			return $value;
		}

		/**
		 * Set the status on posts and pages - is_singular().
		 *
		 * @access public
		 * @since  0.0.1
		 * @uses   is_singular
		 *
		 * @param string $posts
		 *
		 * @return string $posts
		 */
		public function set_comment_status( $posts ) {

			if ( ! empty( $posts ) && is_singular() ) {
				$posts[ 0 ]->comment_status = 'closed';
				$posts[ 0 ]->ping_status    = 'closed';
			}

			return $posts;
		}

		/**
		 * Close comments, if open.
		 *
		 * @access public
		 * @since  0.0.1
		 *
		 * @param string|boolean $open
		 * @param string|integer $post_id
		 *
		 * @return bool|string $open
		 */
		public function close_comments( $open, $post_id ) {

			// If not open, than back.
			if ( ! $open ) {
				return $open;
			}

			$post = get_post( $post_id );
			// For all post types.
			if ( $post->post_type ) {
				return FALSE;
			} // 'closed' don`t work; @see http://codex.wordpress.org/Option_Reference#Discussion

			return $open;
		}

		/**
		 * Return default closed comment status.
		 *
		 * @since  04/08/2013
		 * @return string
		 */
		public function return_closed() {

			return 'closed';
		}

		/**
		 * Change options for don't use comments.
		 *
		 * Remove meta boxes on edit pages.
		 * Remove support on all post types for comments.
		 * Remove menu-entries.
		 * Disallow comments pages direct access.
		 *
		 * @access public
		 * @since  0.0.1
		 * @return void
		 */
		public function remove_comments() {

			global $pagenow;

			// For integer values.
			foreach ( array( 'comments_notify', 'default_pingback_flag' ) as $option ) {
				add_filter( 'pre_option_' . $option, '__return_zero' );
			}
			// For string false.
			foreach ( array( 'default_comment_status', 'default_ping_status' ) as $option ) {
				add_filter( 'pre_option_' . $option, array( $this, 'return_closed' ) );
			}
			// For all post types.
			// As alternative define an array( 'post', 'page' ).
			foreach ( get_post_types() as $post_type ) {
				// Remove the comment status meta box.
				remove_meta_box( 'commentstatusdiv', $post_type, 'normal' );
				// Remove the trackbacks meta box.
				remove_meta_box( 'trackbacksdiv', $post_type, 'normal' );
				// Remove all comments/trackbacks from tables.
				if ( post_type_supports( $post_type, 'comments' ) ) {
					remove_post_type_support( $post_type, 'comments' );
					remove_post_type_support( $post_type, 'trackbacks' );
				}
			}
			// Filter for different pages.
			if ( in_array( $pagenow, self::$comment_pages, FALSE ) ) {
				wp_die(
					esc_html__( 'Comments are disabled on this site.', 'remove_comments_absolute' ),
					'',
					array( 'response' => 403 )
				);
				exit();
			}

			// Remove dashboard meta box for recents comments.
			remove_meta_box( 'dashboard_recent_comments', 'dashboard', 'normal' );
		}

		/**
		 * Remove menu-entries.
		 *
		 * @access public
		 * @since  0.0.3
		 * @uses   remove_meta_box, remove_post_type_support
		 * @return void
		 */
		public function remove_menu_items() {

			remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' );
			remove_submenu_page( 'options-general.php', 'options-discussion.php' );
		}

		/**
		 * Add class for last menu entry with no 20.
		 *
		 * @access  public
		 * @since   0.0.1
		 *
		 * @param array|string $menu
		 *
		 * @return array|string $menu
		 */
		public function add_menu_classes( $menu ) {

			if ( isset( $menu[ 20 ][ 4 ] ) ) {
				$menu[ 20 ][ 4 ] .= ' menu-top-last';
			}

			return $menu;
		}

		/**
		 * Remove comment related elements from the admin dashboard via JS.
		 *
		 * @access  public
		 * @since   0.0.1
		 * $return  string with js
		 */
		public function remove_dashboard_comments_areas() {

			?>
			<script type="text/javascript">
				//<![CDATA[
				jQuery( document ).ready( function( $ ) {
					// Welcome screen
					$( '.welcome-comments' ).parent().remove();
					// 'Right Now' dashboard widget
					$( 'div.table_discussion:first' ).remove();
					// 'Right Now' dashbaord widget since WP version 3.8, second ID since WP 4.0
					$( 'div#dash-right-now, #dashboard_right_now' ).find( '.comment-count' ).remove();
					// 'Activity' dashboard widget, since WP version 3.8
					$( 'div#dashboard_activity' ).find( '#latest-comments' ).remove();
				} );
				//]]>
			</script>
			<?php
		}

		/**
		 * Remove comment entry in Admin Bar.
		 *
		 * @access  public
		 * @since   0.0.1
		 *
		 * @param WP_Admin_Bar $wp_admin_bar WP_Admin_Bar instance, passed by reference.
		 *
		 * @return null
		 */
		public function remove_admin_bar_comment_items( $wp_admin_bar ) {

			if ( ! is_admin_bar_showing() ) {
				return NULL;
			}

			// Remove comment item in blog list for "My Sites" in Admin Bar.
			if ( isset( $GLOBALS[ 'blog_id' ] ) ) {
				$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'blog-' . $GLOBALS[ 'blog_id' ] . '-c' );
			}
			// Remove entry in admin bar.
			$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'comments' );
		}

		/**
		 * Remove comments item on network admin bar.
		 *
		 * @since    04/08/2013
		 * @internal param Array $wp_admin_bar
		 * @return void
		 */
		public function remove_network_comment_items() {

			if ( ! is_admin_bar_showing() ) {
				return NULL;
			}

			global $wp_admin_bar;

			if ( ! function_exists( 'is_plugin_active_for_network' ) ) {
				require_once( ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );
			}

			if ( is_multisite() && is_plugin_active_for_network( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ) ) {

				foreach ( (array) $wp_admin_bar->user->blogs as $blog ) {
					$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'blog-' . $blog->userblog_id . '-c' );
				}
			}
		}

		/**
		 * Display the links to the general feeds, without comments.
		 *
		 * @access public
		 * @since  0.0.4
		 * @uses   current_theme_supports, wp_parse_args, feed_content_type, get_bloginfo, esc_attr, get_feed_link, _x, __
		 *
		 * @param  array $args Optional arguments
		 *
		 * @return string
		 */
		public function feed_links( $args ) {

			if ( ! current_theme_supports( 'automatic-feed-links' ) ) {
				return NULL;
			}

			$defaults = array(
				// Translators: Separator between blog name and feed type in feed links.
				'separator' => _x(
					'&raquo;',
					'feed link',
					'remove_comments_absolute'
				),
				// Translators: 1: blog title, 2: separator (raquo).
				'feedtitle' => __( '%1$s %2$s Feed', 'remove_comments_absolute' ),
			);

			$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );

			echo '<link rel="alternate" type="' . esc_attr( feed_content_type() ) . '" title="' .
				esc_attr(
					sprintf(
						$args[ 'feedtitle' ],
						get_bloginfo( 'name' ),
						$args[ 'separator' ]
					)
				) . '" href="' . esc_attr( get_feed_link() ) . '"/>' . "\n";
		}

		/**
		 * Display the links to the extra feeds such as category feeds.
		 *
		 * Copy from WP default, but without comment feed; no filter available.
		 *
		 * @since 04/08/2013
		 *
		 * @param array $args Optional argument.
		 */
		public function feed_links_extra( $args ) {

			$defaults = array(
				/* Translators: Separator between blog name and feed type in feed links. */
				'separator'     => _x( '&raquo;', 'feed link' ),
				/* Translators: 1: blog name, 2: separator(raquo), 3: category name. */
				'cattitle'      => __( '%1$s %2$s %3$s Category Feed' ),
				/* Translators: 1: blog name, 2: separator(raquo), 3: tag name. */
				'tagtitle'      => __( '%1$s %2$s %3$s Tag Feed' ),
				/* Translators: 1: blog name, 2: separator(raquo), 3: author name.  */
				'authortitle'   => __( '%1$s %2$s Posts by %3$s Feed' ),
				/* Translators: 1: blog name, 2: separator(raquo), 3: search phrase. */
				'searchtitle'   => __( '%1$s %2$s Search Results for &#8220;%3$s&#8221; Feed' ),
				/* Translators: 1: blog name, 2: separator(raquo), 3: post type name. */
				'posttypetitle' => __( '%1$s %2$s %3$s Feed' ),
			);

			$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );

			if ( is_category() ) {
				$term = get_queried_object();

				$title = sprintf( $args[ 'cattitle' ], get_bloginfo( 'name' ), $args[ 'separator' ], $term->name );
				$href  = get_category_feed_link( $term->term_id );
			} elseif ( is_tag() ) {
				$term = get_queried_object();

				$title = sprintf( $args[ 'tagtitle' ], get_bloginfo( 'name' ), $args[ 'separator' ], $term->name );
				$href  = get_tag_feed_link( $term->term_id );
			} elseif ( is_author() ) {
				$author_id = (int) get_query_var( 'author' );

				$title = sprintf(
					$args[ 'authortitle' ], get_bloginfo( 'name' ), $args[ 'separator' ],
					get_the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author_id )
				);
				$href  = get_author_feed_link( $author_id );
			} elseif ( is_search() ) {
				$title = sprintf(
					$args[ 'searchtitle' ], get_bloginfo( 'name' ), $args[ 'separator' ], get_search_query( FALSE )
				);
				$href  = get_search_feed_link();
			} elseif ( is_post_type_archive() ) {
				$title = sprintf(
					$args[ 'posttypetitle' ], get_bloginfo( 'name' ), $args[ 'separator' ],
					post_type_archive_title( '', FALSE )
				);
				$href  = get_post_type_archive_feed_link( get_queried_object()->name );
			}

			if ( isset( $title, $href ) ) {
				echo '<link rel="alternate" type="' . esc_attr( feed_content_type() ) . '" title="' . esc_attr(
						$title
					) . '" href="' . esc_url( $href ) . '" />' . "\n";
			}

		}

		/**
		 * Redirect on comment feed, set status 301.
		 *
		 * @since  04/08/2013
		 * @return NULL
		 */
		public function filter_query() {

			if ( ! is_comment_feed() ) {
				return NULL;
			}

			if ( isset( $_GET[ 'feed' ] ) ) {
				wp_redirect( remove_query_arg( 'feed' ), 301 );
				exit();
			}
			// Redirect_canonical will do the rest.
			set_query_var( 'feed', '' );
		}

		/**
		 * Unset additional HTTP headers for pingback.
		 *
		 * @since   04/07/2013
		 *
		 * @param array $headers
		 *
		 * @return array $headers
		 */
		public function filter_wp_headers( $headers ) {

			unset( $headers[ 'X-Pingback' ] );

			return $headers;
		}

		/**
		 * Unregister default comment widget.
		 *
		 * @since   07/16/2012
		 */
		public function unregister_default_wp_widgets() {

			unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Recent_Comments' );
		}

		/**
		 * Remove options for Keyboard Shortcuts on profile page.
		 *
		 * @since  09/03/2012
		 *
		 * @return void
		 */
		public function remove_profile_items() {

			?>
			<script type="text/javascript">
				//<![CDATA[
				jQuery( document ).ready( function( $ ) {
					$( '#your-profile' ).find( '.form-table' ).first().find( 'tr:nth-child(3)' ).remove();
				} );
				//]]>
			</script>
			<?php
		}

		/**
		 * Replace the theme's or the core comments template with an empty one.
		 *
		 * @since  2016-02-16
		 * @return string The path to the empty template file.
		 */
		public function comments_template() {

			return plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . 'comments.php';
		}

		/**
		 * Replace comment related XML_RPC methods.
		 *
		 * @access public
		 * @since  09/21/2013
		 *
		 * @param array $methods
		 *
		 * @return array $methods
		 */
		public function xmlrpc_replace_methods( $methods ) {

			$comment_methods = array(
				'wp.getCommentCount',
				'wp.getComment',
				'wp.getComments',
				'wp.deleteComment',
				'wp.editComment',
				'wp.newComment',
				'wp.getCommentStatusList',
			);

			foreach ( $comment_methods as $method_name ) {

				if ( isset( $methods[ $method_name ] ) ) {
					$methods[ $method_name ] = array( $this, 'xmlrpc_placeholder_method' );
				}
			}

			return $methods;
		}

		/**
		 * XML_RPC placeholder method.
		 *
		 * @access public
		 * @since  09/21/2013
		 * @return IXR_Error object
		 */
		public function xmlrpc_placeholder_method() {

			return new IXR_Error(
				403,
				esc_attr__( 'Comments are disabled on this site.', 'remove_comments_absolute' )
			);
		}

		/**
		 * Remove comments popup.
		 *
		 * @see    https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28617
		 *
		 * @since  12/14/2015
		 *
		 * @param  array $public_query_vars The array of whitelisted query variables.
		 *
		 * @return array
		 */
		public function filter_query_vars( $public_query_vars ) {

			$key = array_search( 'comments_popup', $public_query_vars, FALSE );
			if ( FALSE !== $key ) {
				unset( $public_query_vars[ $key ] );
			}

			return $public_query_vars;
		}

		/**
		 * Remove 'Discussion Settings' help tab from post edit screen.
		 *
		 * @since  01/01/2016
		 *
		 * @access private
		 */
		public function remove_help_tabs() {

			$current_screen = get_current_screen();

			if ( $current_screen->get_help_tab( 'discussion-settings' ) ) {
				$current_screen->remove_help_tab( 'discussion-settings' );
			}
		}

		/**
		 * Remove rewrite rules for the legacy comment feed and post type comment pages.
		 *
		 * @since  2016-02-16
		 *
		 * @param  array $rules The compiled array of rewrite rules.
		 *
		 * @return array The filtered array of rewrite rules.
		 */
		public function filter_rewrite_rules_array( $rules ) {

			if ( is_array( $rules ) ) {

				// Remove the legacy comment feed rule.
				foreach ( $rules as $k => $v ) {
					if ( FALSE !== strpos( $k, '|commentsrss2' ) ) {
						$new_k = str_replace( '|commentsrss2', '', $k );
						unset( $rules[ $k ] );
						$rules[ $new_k ] = $v;
					}
				}

				// Remove all other comment related rules.
				foreach ( $rules as $k => $v ) {
					if ( FALSE !== strpos( $k, 'comment-page-' ) ) {
						unset( $rules[ $k ] );
					}
				}
			}

			return $rules;
		}

		/**
		 * Return an object with each comment stat set to zero.
		 *
		 * Prevents 'wp_count_comments' form performing a database query.
		 *
		 * @since  2016-08-29
		 * @see    wp_count_comments
		 * @return object Comment stats.
		 */
		public function filter_count_comments() {

			return (object) array( 'approved'       => 0,
			                       'spam'           => 0,
			                       'trash'          => 0,
			                       'post-trashed'   => 0,
			                       'total_comments' => 0,
			                       'all'            => 0,
			                       'moderated'      => 0
			);
		}

	} // end class

} // end if class exists

Lo que hace el plugin es lo siguiente:

• Cierra todos los formularios de comentarios existentes
• Quita los widgets relacionados con comentarios en el editor
• Quita todos los enlaces a la gestión de comentarios de los menús de WordPress
• Quita la columna de comentarios del Escritorio
• Quita los ajustes de comentarios

Aquí tienes unas capturas de como queda de solito y desolado WordPress sin comentarios. Ahora tu decides, igual para algún proyecto te viene bien.

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