This might be stating the obvious, but it has been driving me nuts. I like the functionality of blogs and want to use them for non-blog purposes, like for a manual, etc. On these non-blog areas, I do not want users to be able to comment on posts-I don’t even want them to see any mention of comments. I have searched the web looking for a way to “turn off” comments, to no avail. I am a not a coder so I have no clue how to programmatically turn it off either. Poking around, I found a way to hide the comments link, thus preventing people from adding comments:
There are three pages where this fix needs to be done: blog/default.aspx, post.aspx and category.aspx.
On the default page of the blog, add a test post. Then go to Site Actions> Edit Page. On the Posts webpart, click Edit > Modify Shared Web part. Under Selected View, click “Edit the current view“. Now unselect “#Comments with Link“. I also deselected category and permalink. Click OK and get out of edit mode. The comments link is now gone
Click the header for the test post and you will be at blog/post.aspx. Do the same thing on this page. Done.
Yes, I know comments aren’t really “turned off”, but what the user can’t see, they can’t do. If you have a better solution, please please share!
Hiding Comments in Blogs
August 5, 2008 at 2:06 pm · Filed under General, SharePoint ·Tagged blogs, comments, SharePoint
This might be stating the obvious, but it has been driving me nuts. I like the functionality of blogs and want to use them for non-blog purposes, like for a manual, etc. On these non-blog areas, I do not want users to be able to comment on posts-I don’t even want them to see any mention of comments. I have searched the web looking for a way to “turn off” comments, to no avail. I am a not a coder so I have no clue how to programmatically turn it off either. Poking around, I found a way to hide the comments link, thus preventing people from adding comments:
There are three pages where this fix needs to be done: blog/default.aspx, post.aspx and category.aspx.
On the default page of the blog, add a test post. Then go to Site Actions> Edit Page. On the Posts webpart, click Edit > Modify Shared Web part. Under Selected View, click “Edit the current view“. Now unselect “#Comments with Link“. I also deselected category and permalink. Click OK and get out of edit mode. The comments link is now gone
Click the header for the test post and you will be at blog/post.aspx. Do the same thing on this page. Done.
Yes, I know comments aren’t really “turned off”, but what the user can’t see, they can’t do. If you have a better solution, please please share!
Hiding comments
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