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<h1>Disabling Comments in WordPress</h1>
<p>2020-12-28</p>
<p><em>I seem to come across a decent amount of clients</em> and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future <em>and</em> previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down.</p>
<h2>Back to the future</h2>
<p>Disabling comments on all <em>future</em> blog posts is fairly straightforward:</p>
<p><ol><li>Navigate to your WordPress admin dashboard</li><li>Go to <strong>Settings</strong> &gt; <strong>Discussion</strong></li><li>Uncheck <strong>Allow people to submit comments on new posts</strong></li><li>That’s it!</li></ol></p>
<h2>But what about old posts?</h2>
<p>Have no fear - “Bulk Actions” are here to save the day! In order to retroactively disable comments on older posts, do the following:</p>
<p><ol><li>Navigate to <strong>Posts</strong></li><li>Select the specific posts you would like to disable comments on (or select all of them)</li><li>Click the <strong>Bulk Actions</strong> drop-down menu and choose <strong>Edit</strong></li><li>Press <strong>Apply</strong></li><li>In the <strong>Bulk Edit</strong> view, look for the <strong>Comments</strong> drop-down </li><li>Select <strong>Do Not Allow</strong> and click <strong>Update</strong></li><li>That’s it!</li><div></div></ol></p>
<p>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!</p>
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