Acorn Disable Comments

A theme-agnostic Acorn package that fully disables WordPress comments. Drop it into any Sage theme (or any Acorn-aware project) and stop re-implementing the same dozen comment- disabling hooks on every build.

Modeled on roots/acorn-prettify: each concern lives in its own module, every module is independently toggleable from config/disable-comments.php.

What it disables

Module	What it does
close-comments	Closes comments and pingbacks on every post type.
hide-existing-comments	Returns an empty comment array; reports zero comments.
admin-ui	Removes the Comments admin menu, admin-bar item, dashboard widget, list-table columns, and the Discussion settings page. Redirects direct visits.
front-end	Short-circuits comments_template, empties comment links, dequeues comment-reply.js.
rest-api	Strips /wp/v2/comments routes and rejects comment writes.
feeds	Disables the global comments feed and per-post comment feeds.
xml-rpc	Removes the X-Pingback header and pingback / comment XML-RPC methods.

Installation

composer require brew-bytes/acorn-disable-comments

The provider auto-registers via extra.acorn.providers. No further wiring needed — defaults disable everything.

Customizing

Publish the config to your app:

wp acorn vendor:publish --tag=disable-comments-config

Then edit config/disable-comments.php to toggle individual modules or sub-features:

return [
    'close-comments' => ['enabled' => true],
    'xml-rpc' => [
        'enabled' => true,
        'disable-fully' => false, // keep XML-RPC available for app passwords
    ],
    // ...
];

Setting any module's enabled to false removes its hooks entirely.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+
• Acorn 4.x or 5.x
• WordPress 6.0+

License

MIT © Brew & Bytes