# Private comments are showing publicly

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-comments-are-showing-publicly/119320>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [June 2, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-comments-are-showing-publicly/119320 "2019-06-02T18:26:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexwoolfson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alexwoolfson/32/99119_2.png) [@alexwoolfson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alexwoolfson)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-comments-are-showing-publicly/119320/3 "2019-06-02T18:43:11Z")

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Hi Simon!

Both those upgrades you mentioned sound awesome. I think it would make a lot of sense to have the option to automatically not display comments from protected categories. I’m also surprised this hasn’t come up before, but I guess I’m your official canary in the coalmine. 😉

I’m using Patreon Plugin Pro which I’ve tweaked a little bit to work with my webcomic site.

For now, should I just disable the link in the Wordpress post?

P.S. For what it’s worth, having the comment template load on the page actually helps me a bit in this scenario, because it also automatically disables the Disqus comments on the page unless I manually input a comment in the Edit Page metabox. Not sure what will happen if the Discourse comments template doesn’t load at all for an individual page.

I suppose for me my ideal result would be to load the comments template (thus showing a live link to where to comment on my Discourse site, as well as disabling the Disqus comments) while still not showing any individual comments from the protected category.

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