Disabling comments on Confluence page

[shruthi sj]

Hello,

I would like to disable comments on required page on confluence and the confluence im using is Cloud based.

I tried html macro and script inside it, which did not work, can anyone help me here.

Thanks,

Shruthi SJ 

[shruthi sj]

Thanks everyone for actively responding... i did manage to remove comment permission from space level itself. (Confluence Cloud)

[Minh Tran]

That sounds a way to achieve what you need.

[Jonathan Smith]

Server solution (not sure if works in cloud):

If your OK with hiding comments space wide, you can hide various elements though Space StyleSheet:

#comments-section {

display:none !important;

}

More info can be found here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-hide-elements-in-confluence-using-css-or-javascript-313458894.html

[ManuR]

To add to this reply, if you have something like the Style macro available, you could put a single Style macro on the pages you wish to disable comments on and use the CSS proposed by Jonathan above :)

[Hector Barquero]

adding for readers: as of Dec 2023, Confluence server (7.19+) solve by @Jonathan Smith still works as a space-wide solution.

To note: removing comments this way does not delete them/resolve them. If you want to unhide them, simply remove the same syntax from your stylesheet:

#comments-section {
     display:none !important;
}

Perfect solution for tech writers cleaning up legacy knowledge base spaces and maybe wanting to get rid of some content without removing it entirely.

[Jonathan Smith]

@Hector Barquero I hope your migration is going smoothly (if you are migrating right now).

[Minh Tran]

@shruthi sj just in case you use Confluence server, you can check out the answer here https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Turn-Off-comments-on-specific-Confluence-page/qaq-p/298750

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi @shruthi sj,

this app promises to hide various things from pages:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.hideelements-macro/server/overview

I haven't tried it yet.

Another option is, putting a javascript on your page like this one described here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-disable-commenting-on-an-individual-page-695107603.html

[Thomas Schlegel]

Ah, now I see, you are on cloud. Then, my answer is wrong, sorry. The app and javascript is only possible on server instances.

[shruthi sj]

Hello Thomas,

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/de.scandio.confluence.plugins.hideelements-macro/server/overview .  - This doesn't work for cloud

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-disable-commenting-on-an-individual-page-695107603.html . -  i have included in html macro in particular page but no luck :(

Thanks,

Shruthi

[Minh Tran]

@shruthi sj i doubt you can use those plugins in cloud. html macro is restricted for security reason in cloud as far as i recall

[Suren Raj]

Yes, HTML macro is a restricted function in Cloud.

[Suren Raj]

Hi, Shruthi.

I understand you'd like to disable comments in specific pages, however, I'm afraid this feature was already requested in times past but not resolved, as you can check below:

* [CONF-7742 - Allow comments to be disabled on a page or blog post|https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-7742].

You might want to navigate to your Space Permission and disable Add Comment permission to certain user or group.

[shruthi sj]

Hello Suren,

Thanks for the quick reply :)

I have done the same thing, remove add comment permission but this removes it from whole space.

Thanks,

Shruthi SJ