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Keith Bennett
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Keith Bennett
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Posted by Keith Bennett
Keith Bennett
Courses Plus Student 253 Points

Is it possible to remove the comment area in a separate PHP file?

You copied and modified the page.php file to remove the comment area. However, won't this be a problem if an update to the theme changes page.php?

Is there a way for the child theme to import the parent theme's page.php and then in the child theme's page.php, remove/disable the comment area?

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Jonathan Arbely
Jonathan Arbely
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Jonathan Arbely
Jonathan Arbely
6,691 Points

Hello Keith, yes indeed, that would be a problem!

And yes, this can be done by using child-themes. Take a look. The easiest way of hiding the comment-section for good would be to hide it in the style.css of your child-theme with display: none;.

But a better solution is to use a plugin (like JetPack - caution, adds a lot of potentially unnecessary weight to your site) that lets you create and edit a custom stylesheat wihout the need to create and manage a child-theme. This seems overkill just to hide the section of a page. Speaking of pages and posts, WordPress has a built-in feature which let's you hide the comment section from a page or post while creating/editing it. Are you aware of that?