Disable "Feedback" Comments Wordpress

How To: Disable "feedback" Comments on Wordpress.org. The amount of people using BOT (automated) software to spam the hell out of WordPress websites is crazy high. Disabling the ability for visitors to leave a comment isn't good enough any more.

You can disable people from commenting, but then still get loads of spam comments coming through from the "feedback" form. For the majority of people, this sneaky backdoor comment enabling system is usually down to the Jetpack plugin and its contact form feature. It's enabled by default, and it's really annoying. So we need to turn it off.

However, if you search through the tabs trying to disable the contact form, you won't find any option to quickly turn this feature off. But the option is there. It's just hidden. Today I'll show you how to completely remove the feedback feature and totally remove the tab from the WordPress sidebar. Let's get started.

How To: Disable "Feedback" Comments from Wordpress.org

In the WordPress dashboard go to Jetpack and click the dashboard tab. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and you will see a line of greyed out links, which reads as follows: [Jetpack version 8.7.1 | About | Terms | Privacy | Modules | Debug]. Here is a picture.

Click Debug [Far right]

Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a link that reads "Access the full list of Jetpack modules available on your site." See the image below with the location of this link highlighted in red.

Click the link

Upon clicking the link you will now see a list of all the modules. Find "Contact Form" [near the top] and deactivate it by clicking "deactivate". See the image below for the location [highlighted in red].

And that's it. Feedback comments are now disabled and the Feedback tab has also been removed from the WordPress dashboard sidebar. Hope this helped you out. Until the next time amigo.

JetPack Plug-In Stats Not Showing Fix

A little annoying, but in my experience with this problem, an easy fix. I've read about a few people experiencing this problem disabling the plug-in, uninstalling, and then re-installing it and all has been well. I didn't do that as I was convinced that wasn't going to solve the problem in my case. And was I right, it wasn't needed. There are most probably several causes and numerous fixes to this error. Some of the causes may be because the server were the stats are pulled from may be down. Or there could be a conflict with another plug-in. Some people have taken their sites apart trying to find out the cause of this issue!

Here is the error. You try to fetch your stats, it looks like everything is about to load but then throws up the following error message:

"We were unable to get your stats just now. Please reload this page to try again."

How to fix it? The cause of this problem for me was when Jetpack (Or Wordpress- where the stats are coming from) updated their SSL Certificate. If an SSL Certificate gets updated and your Date and Time are not correct (behind the time of the update) it will throw up all types of errors. "Connection not secure", Untrusted website, and even, We were unable to get your stats just now..

My CMOS battery has died, so my time was about one hour behind. I usually set it to what I think the time is - which is usually close enough - each day. Upon receiving this error, applying the solution, and then refreshing the stats page, I'm back in business and everything is working well. Be sure to check your date and time if you are getting this error message in Jetpack Stats.