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Remove or Replace “Blog Comments Powered by DISQUS”

This line of code that you are wanting to hide is:
[html]<a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">blog comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a>[/html]

There are two ways to hide this: CSS & php. In CSS, just go to your DISQUS CSS file located in COMMENTS > DISQUS > SETTINGS > APPEARANCE and add
[html].dsq-brlink {display:none;}
.logo-disqus {display:none;}[/html]

Or, if you wish to edit the file in WordPress, which is typically not advisable, especially if you do not have access via FTP to your files as a change may render your site inoperable. So with that caution,  go under Plugins and select Editor. Where it says, "Select what plugin to edit," you want to select Disqus Comment System. Then click Select. Then you want to select the disqus-comment-system/comments.php file on the right side, which should be located at the bottom. If you do this through a FTP and you are using a folder system (where each plugin is located in its own folder), simply navigate to your plugins directory, typically /yourdomainrootfolder/wp-content/plugins/disqus-comment-system/comments.php is the file that you want to get.

At line 30 you will find:

[html] <a href="http://disqus.com">blog comments powered by <span>Disqus</span></a> [/html]

Simply delete the entire line, or write whatever you'd like to write there.

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Comments

    • Travis Smith says

      Again I am not sure what you are looking for, but you can find more information at disqus.com. Please let me know if you have any specific questions and please give me more specifics if you’d like some help from me.

  5. flash menu says

    I was looking for this quite a long time, as I was not knowing how to do this. I would love to use disqus on my site and with the help of this would do it soon.

  8. kevin says

    how do you remove the bar on top of the ‘add new comment’
    the part that says ‘I like this page’ and the other buttons with it.
    also how can i remove the bottom stuff, like “subscribe by e-mail” and “rss” plus “the sort by”
    i want to keep it really minimalistic. please reply, thank you so much!

    • Travis Smith says

      Hello,

      To remove the bar on top, the easy way is to add [css]#dsq-content #dsq-global-toolbar table {display: none;}
      #dsq-content .dsq-options {display: none:}[/css] to your custom css in disqus.com > Settings > Appearance.