Well, fear not – help is at hand. It turns out that the solution is in fact a very simple one. This allows you to disable comments on pages on an individual basis. And even if your site has quite a few pages, there is no need for it to take very long.

What you do is simply click on the Pages list in the menu on the left, under ‘Pages’ obviously. Then hover over the page name you wish to remover the comments for until the small horizontal menu appears. Click on ‘Quick Edit’. Now all you need to do is to untick the box that says ‘allow comments’. Save/Apply.

The comment box will instantly disappear from the page in question and your problem is solved.

Think again!

The first option that I tried was using the custom fields on the page to insert the code. Unfortunately though, this inserts the code into the header of the page – not the body where it needs to be – so that’s not going to work for us.

If you Google the subject, the top result is this post by Ozone Marketing. This looks promising as it is based on a WordPress plugin and these are generally good for the not-so-technical amongst us in terms of adding functionality to the mighty WordPress. However, having tried this I have got to admit that it did not actually work for me. The reason is that the solution was based on a Google Website Optimizer Plugin for WordPress and this plugin has now been updated which renders this approach unworkable. I might be wrong about that and if I am I would love to hear!

Next up is this post from the Google Adwords Forum. Unfortunately the best that they could come up with was somebody suggesting checking the plugins available for WordPress – surely somebody must have written one… Well – sorry – they haven’t!

The last post of note is this one from ‘Internet Megaphone’. I would say this is a very well researched and written post by somebody who obviously knows what they’re talking about. The problem with this is really that it involved downloading and editing PHP pages and, frankly, this scares me.

So.. what we really need (and urgently) is a WordPress plugin specifically dedicated to this one issue – that is, adding AdWords tracking code to one specific page of a WordPress blog. If anybody knows of one I would love to hear about it. If, as I suspect, there isn’t one, then coders – I suggest you get cracking!

The functionality is basic for the time being but it does allow you to scale, crop and rotate images within the CMS.

Personally, I am sure that even this simple amount of functionality is going to save quite some time. Rather than needing to edit images in an external editor such as Photoshop and then upload them again to the media library – none of this will be necessary any longer. And that’s great!