Is there ANY way to remove comments function and section totally?

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1. Here is a list of all of the above answers and a removal of the admin bar link. Just add it to your themes function file or make it a plugin. I will mark this as a community wiki as everyone’s answer is right just no one added it all together.

   <?php
   // Removes from admin menu
   add_action( 'admin_menu', 'my_remove_admin_menus' );
   function my_remove_admin_menus() {
       remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' );
   }
   // Removes from post and pages
   add_action('init', 'remove_comment_support', 100);
   
   function remove_comment_support() {
       remove_post_type_support( 'post', 'comments' );
       remove_post_type_support( 'page', 'comments' );
   }
   // Removes from admin bar
   function mytheme_admin_bar_render() {
       global $wp_admin_bar;
       $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('comments');
   }
   add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'mytheme_admin_bar_render' );
   ?>
   

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2. To remove the Comments menu:

   add_action( 'admin_init', 'my_remove_admin_menus' );
   function my_remove_admin_menus() {
       remove_menu_page( 'edit-comments.php' );
   }
   

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3. This should remove support for comments on your site:

   add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_comment_support');
   
   function remove_comment_support() {
       remove_post_type_support( 'post', 'comments' );
       remove_post_type_support( 'page', 'comments' );
   }
   

   I don’t know if it will hide every mention of comments in the admin section, though. The “Right Now” box on the dashboard is mostly hard-coded, so you’d have to hide that box or do some hackery to filter out the line about “Comments”. But it should remove the “comments” text everywhere else that I can think of.

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4. // Disable support for comments and trackbacks in post types
   function df_disable_comments_post_types_support() {
       $post_types = get_post_types();
       foreach ($post_types as $post_type) {
           if(post_type_supports($post_type, 'comments')) {
               remove_post_type_support($post_type, 'comments');
               remove_post_type_support($post_type, 'trackbacks');
           }
       }
   }
   add_action('admin_init', 'df_disable_comments_post_types_support');
   
   // Close comments on the front-end
   function df_disable_comments_status() {
       return false;
   }
   add_filter('comments_open', 'df_disable_comments_status', 20, 2);
   add_filter('pings_open', 'df_disable_comments_status', 20, 2);
   
   // Hide existing comments
   function df_disable_comments_hide_existing_comments($comments) {
       $comments = array();
       return $comments;
   }
   add_filter('comments_array', 'df_disable_comments_hide_existing_comments', 10, 2);
   
   // Remove comments page in menu
   function df_disable_comments_admin_menu() {
       remove_menu_page('edit-comments.php');
   }
   add_action('admin_menu', 'df_disable_comments_admin_menu');
   
   // Redirect any user trying to access comments page
   function df_disable_comments_admin_menu_redirect() {
       global $pagenow;
       if ($pagenow === 'edit-comments.php') {
           wp_redirect(admin_url()); exit;
       }
   }
   add_action('admin_init', 'df_disable_comments_admin_menu_redirect');
   
   // Remove comments metabox from dashboard
   function df_disable_comments_dashboard() {
       remove_meta_box('dashboard_recent_comments', 'dashboard', 'normal');
   }
   add_action('admin_init', 'df_disable_comments_dashboard');
   
   // Remove comments links from admin bar
   function df_disable_comments_admin_bar() {
       if (is_admin_bar_showing()) {
           remove_action('admin_bar_menu', 'wp_admin_bar_comments_menu', 60);
       }
   }
   add_action('init', 'df_disable_comments_admin_bar');
   

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5. This will not remove it from your markup per se, but you can easily hide the WP 3.1 admin bar link (both visually and from screen-readers) by adding the following line to your theme’s CSS:

   li#wp-admin-bar-comments { display: none; visibility: hidden; }

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6. There’s an out-of-the-box solution that does just that. It’s a plugin from Frank Bültge

   Docs:
   http://wpengineer.com/2230/removing-comments-absolutely-wordpress/

   Plug-in download:
   https://github.com/bueltge/Remove-Comments-Absolutely

   Just install, and thats it. no config.

   It works fine with WP 3.5

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