# 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:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-comments-are-showing-publicly/119320/4 "2019-06-02T18:56:36Z")

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Your case is tricky since you want the comments template to load, but not load the Discourse comments. The easiest way to handle it would be for me to make a small update to the plugin.

For now, if you are able to figure out how to target your protected pages with CSS, you could hide the Discourse comments with CSS. The CSS can probaby be less specific than this:

```css
div#comments.discourse-comments-area {
    display: none;
}

```

Another short-term option would be to publish your private posts to Discourse, and then unlink the posts from Discourse:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/e/0ef02516b23e9e435e56d5b9b6a9e9fdac7c4e06.png)

You can relink the posts later when they are made public.

I’ll look into this some more when I get back to work tomorrow.

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