How to hide the comment subject field?

Free Radical

11/8/23, 5:26 PM

In Drupal 7, there used to be a checkbox: "Allow comment title". Unchecking that, and there was no comment title.

I am unable to locate a similar setting in Drupal 9.

I've found: How to remove or hide the Subject field for comments?

It explains how to auto-generate the subject field for a comment. This is not what I am asking. I don't want to display any subject field when showing a comment. If you're familiar with how comments work in issues posted on Drupal.org, that is the solution I am looking for.

Edit: In comments, it is suggested that you can do this by navigating to the "Manage display" tab for the comment type. However, this is a screen dump (Drupal 9.4.8) of that tab for the default comment type:

I see no obvious way to set the title not to be shown.

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Patrick Kenny

11/9/23, 12:26 AM

Can't you hide the subject field on the Manage Display tab?

Jaypan

11/9/23, 12:42 AM

That's how you do it. Admin -> Structure -> Comment types -> [COMMENT TYPE] -> manage display. Set the title to not be shown.

Free Radical

11/10/23, 12:17 PM

@PatrickKenny, no you can't you hide the subject field on the Manage Display tab. See edited question.

Free Radical

11/10/23, 12:17 PM

@Jaypan see edited question.

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No Sssweat

11/9/23, 1:06 PM

A solution is to copy core's comment.html.twig and put it in your theme's /templates folder and remove the <h3{{ title_attributes }}>{{ title }}</h3> line.

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Free Radical

11/19/23, 5:24 PM

I agree that this will work, but I really do not want to create a subtheme just to be able to hide the Subject. I would prefer to do this from the administrative GUI. The contributed extension named **Manage display** let me do that, so I've added that as a self-answer.

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Free Radical

11/19/23, 5:20 PM

If one installs the contributed extension named Manage display the "Subject" field becomes exposed under the "Manage display" tab for a comment. You can then move it to the "Disabled" section to hide it.

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