Disabling comments for specific posts

Using Ghost
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Hi,
I’m using Ghost’s default comments system and I’m wondering if there’s a way to disable comments but only for specific posts or even posts in specific tags. If it’s not possible via Ghost’s default settings, is there a way to incorporate such functionality in a custom theme?

Thanks in advance!

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It would be easy to either make a custom post template that excludes the comments helper, or to wrap some logic around the helper that doesn’t load it when a certain tag is present. But yeah, you’d need to edit the theme. I guess you could go JavaScript with code injection to remove the comments…

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Your suggestion led me to wrap comments with something like this {{^has tag="tag_i_want_to_exclude"}}. Not sure if it’s the best solution but it seems to be working. :crossed_fingers:

Thank you!

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There’s another way to do this without Javascript and without editing the theme: inject some custom CSS onto a page where you want to hide the comment box. Specifically, add the following to the post header:

<style type="text/css">
	.gh-comments {
		display: none;
	}
</style>
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