Would like to have comments only posted through Facebook. How do I remove WP's "Leave a Reply" box?

[JasonLA+ 2]

Would like to clean up the single post page so the only option is to comment via Facebook. Can anyone tell me how to do this please? http://zoxstraps.com/archives/201 Thanks!

[Danny+ 1,327]

Hi Jason, You could try this: Wordpress Admin Dashboard --> Settings --> Discussions, then untick "Allow people to post comments on new articles". This will disable comments globally, if you would rather have it on a per page/post basis then you can simply untick the "Allow Comments" on the Discussion panel when writing a new page or post.

[JasonLA+ 2]

Hi Danny, Thanks for the input. I just tried what you suggested but for some reason nothing changed. Any ideas?

[kastelic 6]

That setting will only affect new articles. For old articles you have to edit each one and uncheck "allow comments". Alternatively you can go to Template Setup -> Single Post Content Area and remove the Comment Form section.

[JasonLA+ 2]

That worked, Thank you!

[holimed 0]

I would also like to only use the Facebook comments, am using the AWD plugin, but when I deactivate comments in page lines then the Facebook comments are gone as well. When I activate then i have first the page lines comments followed by the Facebook comments. Any suggestions? Thanks, Nikki

[catrina 103]

Perhaps you can use a CSS workaround to hide the default WordPress comments. For further insight on using Firebug and the Custom CSS settings, please see here: http://www.pagelines.com/wiki/How_to_Use_the_Custom_Code_Settings