How To Get Rid of Disqus on Pages

I told some people on Twitter that if I ever figured out how to do this, I’d write a post about it.

So when you install Disqus on your blog, everything is spectacular…until you look on your pages and see a big, glaring, yellow box with “Comments are closed on this post” (or whatever it says). It’s obnoxious, and it’s ugly, and no matter what you do, you can’t disable it.

Well, I hacked some PHP and found a solution.

1. Go to the “disqus.php” file (in the plugins folder).
2. Find this line in the file (CTRL+F):  if ( ! (is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments) ) {
3. Replace that line with this:  if ( ! (is_single()|| $withcomments) ) {
4. Save the file.

Voila. The annoying yellow box (and all Disqus content) is gone on all pages (because you deleted the || is_page() code). Of course, now I have the default WordPress “Comments on this entry are closed.” message there. But that’s far less annoying (in my opinion).

This leaves everything intact for posts, so you shouldn’t have any troubles there.

I don’t think this is a permanent solution. I think that Disqus is planning on addressing this issue in a future update. But for now, it gets the job done.

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