WordPress How To:Disable Comments

WordPress How To Disable Comments

In this post I want to teach you the two ways to disable comments on your site.  You can disable comments site wide or you can disable comments on a post by post (or page) basis.

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Site Wide

To disable comments across your entire site you need to make two changes go to settings -> discussion and uncheck “Allow people to post comments on new articles” this disabled comments on new posts, next, close comments on posts older than x days, this closes comments on older posts.  Set this to one day.  See screen dump for more details

Post by Post

If you would rather disable comments on a post by post (or page) basis you can do this too.

Open up your post in the visual editor and scroll down to the discussion box and uncheck “Allow comments.”  See screen dump for full details

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