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Disable Blogging in WordPress

v2.1.0
by Fact Maven · 4.5 (17 reviews)

Disable posts, comments, feeds, and other blogging features. A must-have plugin to turn WordPress into a non-blogging CMS platform without code.

9K+ active installs Updated Sep 14, 2020 Tested to 5.5.15 Requires PHP 5.3
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About Disable Blogging in WordPress

Disable Blogging is a plugin for WordPress that disables all blog related functionalities, including posts, comments, and feeds. It also includes additional features to disable and hide other cumbersome functions, creating a cleaner and simpler WordPress platform for static websites. Please note that this plugin does not delete any existing data on WordPress, it only hides and disables blog-related features.

Changelog

2.1.0

2020-09-14

  • Added minimum required PHP version in readme
  • Updated Settings API wrapper
  • Fix: depreciation warning for Extra > Help Tabs (thanks to Timothée Moulin)
  • Fix: depreciation warning for “Comment must be manually approved” option (pull #18)
  • Fix: large plugin icon (issue #12)

2.0.4

2017-01-14

  • Screen Options tab can now be removed from the admin header
  • Both post and comments are removed from the REST API
  • Hiding additional admin menu items is no longer available
  • Removed depreciated plugin option from v1.3.0
  • Fix: fatal error with WooCommerce setup (issue #12)

2.0.3

2016-11-26

  • Fix: fatal error given on some websites (thanks to CotswoldPhoto)

2.0.2

2016-11-25

  • i18n support: available in Japanese
  • Disable alternative “Howdy” greetings in different languages (thanks to Maël Conan)
  • Menu Feature: option to disable reordering of Pages menu
  • Fix: empty array error given for some websites
  • Fix: invalid argument supplied for foreach() warning (issue #10)

2.0.1

2016-10-23

  • Fix: website would load a blank page when disabling feeds

2.0.0

2016-10-23

  • Rebuilt plugin with new Settings API, everything is now 100% customizable
  • Reordered “Pages” menu further up underneath the “Dashboard” (thanks to Piet Bos)
  • The “Activity” meta box will show custom post types instead (thanks to SECT)
  • Extra Features
    • Remove code in header used to add support for emojis
    • Change or remove the admin footer
  • Profile Features
    • Hide additional profile fields created by plugins/theme by their label ID
  • Menu Features
    • Option to hide dashicons
    • Option to remove separators
  • Blog related options are hidden from the Settings
  • Set the following blog options in the Settings:
    • Reading: Set default the reading settings to a static page
    • Discussion: Unchecked “attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article
    • Discussion: Unchecked “allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new articles
  • More extensive features added to disable blog related features
  • Various code improvements
  • Fix: comments column showing up in Pages
  • Fix: custom Taxonomy redirecting to Pages upon update (issue #3)

The rest of the changelog can be viewed on GitHub.

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