[xwiki-users] Disable and hide comments

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Marie Sauvage [EBM WebSourcing] wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I'm trying to disable comments from all users (guests and logged 
> users) and then to hide the useless comments zone at bottom of pages.
> I've seen there is some options in the wiki.cfg file but I'm not the 
> server admin. Is there a way to do that without having to modify the 
> config file and reboot xwiki ? I don't find anything in the 
> administration space.
> I've thought to change the layout and remove this zone but I don't 
> find it's a "clean" way to do, and maybe later we'll want to 
> reactivate comments...
>
> thanks for your help,
> Marie.

Hi Marie,

You need to change the XWiki.XWikiPreferences class like this:

1. Go to <server>/xwiki/bin/edit/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=class
2. Add a new property called showcomments of type String Class
3. Go to 
<server>/xwiki/bin/edit/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=object&classname=XWiki.XWikiPreferences 
and write no in the showcomments field

That's it, the comments are gone. If you want to re-enable comments, 
replace the "no" value with "yes"
If you want to disable attaachments, too, do the same with a property 
named showattachments.

Sergiu