I was working on further developing a website that is built in Mezzanine and needed to completely disable the built in comments. As far as I know there is no setting that controls this so I wanted to figure out the easiest/most efficient way to do this. Obviously I could go through every template that used the comments_for template tag and remove it (removing the comment form from the associated page), but that would make it more difficult to re-enable comments in the future if so desired. What I ended up settling on was creating an empty generic/includes/comments.html and then adding the following line to my project's url.py:

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A question that often comes up on the Mezzanine mailing list is "how can I make Mezzanine do x". Modifying Mezzanine's code directly is an option but that will make upgrading Mezzanine painful. Below I discuss a number of techniques that can be used to modify Mezzanine without actually touching Mezzanine's codebase.

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