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From: bt
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 13:22:19 -0400
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Disabling Comments in WordPress
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Disabling Comments in WordPress
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Disabling Comments in WordPress
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2020-12-28
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I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down.
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Back to the future
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Back to the future
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Disabling comments on all future blog posts is fairly straightforward:
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Navigate to your WordPress admin dashboard
Go to Settings > Discussion
Uncheck Allow people to submit comments on new posts
That’s it!
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But what about old posts?
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But what about old posts?
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Have no fear - “Bulk Actions” are here to save the day! In order to retroactively disable comments on older posts, do the following:
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Navigate to Posts
Select the specific posts you would like to disable comments on (or select all of them)
Click the Bulk Actions drop-down menu and choose Edit
Press Apply
In the Bulk Edit view, look for the Comments drop-down
Select Do Not Allow and click Update
That’s it!
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I hope this article saves others any headaches in the future. WordPress itself could certainly make this more streamlined, but for now what we have works. Happy (not) commenting!