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Disable Wordpress Comments
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WordPress has the Comment feature enabled by default. WordPress comment is a nice feature which is favored by most WordPress users, we do not need to disable WordPress comments under most circumstances. Comments provide your website visitors a platform to communicate with you and other readers. If you want spark conversation, to enhance community interaction around your content, you should not close or disable WordPress comments. However sometimes we may need to disable comments on certain posts, pages. For example, you may not want any website visitors can comment on your home page, about page, billing page. In this case, you can disable comments on some WordPress articles not another. If you have some very old articles, like those published several years ago, you may not want to receive any new comments any more, how can you disable comments on those old WordPress posts or pages? Please continue read on to find out more tips and tricks to disable or close comments for WordPress sites and blogs.
How to disable WordPress Comments? Generally you can manually delete any WordPress comments from the Comment Moderation section in WordPress Dashboard. You can also set up some rules with the settings and options offered to let WordPress system automatically filter or disable WordPress comments on posts and pages. You can also install third party WordPRess plugins to manage, disable, edit WordPress comments.
Disable WordPress Comments for New Posts and Pages
This feature is very handy to enable or disable. It can change the default WP comment setting from enabled to disabled. To turn off WordPress comments by default, log on your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings –> Discussion –> Default Article Settings and deselect “Allow people to post comments on new articles”. After that, all new posts and pages published will not show a comment box below the article.
This change however only affects future articles, not other existing posts or pages. If you have a new WordPress website which has just been launched, then turning on this option will disable all WordPress comments.
You can also override this setting by enabling comments on certain future articles manually. You can always manually enable or disable WordPress comments for individual or bulk posts or articles.
Disable WordPress Comments for existing or old Posts and Pages
If you want to disable comments for current WordPress articles, you can utilize another option named ‘Automatically close comments on articles older than ** days’. Log on your WP admin panel, go to Settings –> Discussion –> Other comment settings, then input the number of days which you allow your WP articles to accept new comments. You can set it to a very small number to stopped accepting comments quickly for existing posts and pages.
WordPress comment is a very flexible comment system. It allows you great freedom to enable, disable and manage comments from your website visitors. Except the above mentioned methods, you can also download and install a WordPress comment plugin to manage the comments. You can change the comment settings to allow or not allow comments for new or old posts/pages of your own website.