How To Remove Blogger Threaded Comments

The Blogger Threaded commenting system allows a reader to reply to other reader comments on that post. Blogger supports threaded commenting with two levels - the original comment, and the replies to that comment. If you want remove threaded comments from your blogger blog, follow these steps:

Important

Before anything, it is recommended to backup your Blogger template so that if anything goes wrong, we can easily restore the original working template on our blog.

To make a backup of your current Blogger template, go to your Blogger dashboard, then go to "Template" and click on the "Backup/Restore" button on the upper right side. Clicking on this button, will prompt you to save your existing template as an XML file to your hard drive. You can change the name of the file and choose the location to ensure it is easy to find if you need to use this later.

Removing the Blogger Threaded Comments (with reply option)

Step 1.Go to "Template" and click on the "Edit HTML" button

blogger template edit html

Step 2. Click anywhere inside the code area and press CTRL + F keys to open the Blogger' search box.


Step 3. Paste or type the first line of the following code inside the search box and hit Enter in order to find it:
<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
            <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
          <b:else/>
            <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
          </b:if>
        </b:if>
        <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
          <b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
            <b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
          <b:else/>
            <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
          </b:if>
        </b:if>
Step 4. Remove this code (you will find it twice, so you need to replace it twice) and paste the below code instead:
   <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
          </b:if>
               <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
                     <b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
     
        </b:if>

Step 5. Save the changes by clicking on the "Save template" button.

That's it!

6 comments:

  1. Hi There! Been trying to get my numbered comments back up all day, and finally realized I needed to disable my threaded comments first. Tried your tutorial and it did eliminate the threaded comments, but now it's adding extra comments (first comment says 1, second says 3, third says 5, etc). Do you happen to have any ideas for a fix for this? My blog is www.stitcherydickorydock.com, and I'd be happy to send you code, if that would help. If you are able to offer help, I'd be happy to offer a monetary donation!!

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    1. Hello Amy,

      Search for this code in your template (make a backup first)

      <script type='text/javascript'>
          CommentsCounter=CommentsCounter+1;
          document.write(CommentsCounter+&quot;.&quot;)
          </script>

      You should delete it. Then search for something like this and remove it also:

      <span class='comm-num'>
      <a expr:href='data:comment.url' title='Comment Link'>
      <script type='text/javascript'>
      CommentsCounter=CommentsCounter+1;
      document.write(CommentsCounter)
      </script>
      </a>
      </span>

      I hope this solved your problem (please tell me if it did not)
      Thanks for visiting!

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  2. Why my template error i thing step by step on ure article not wrong,,,

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  3. OOH AM CONFUSED ALREADY..I DONT SEE THE FIRST STAGE ..I DONT SEE THOSE WORDS

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