How to Disable Comments on WordPress Posts
There are some spam-fighting tools such as Akismet and Mollom, but some of users prefer to turn off comments entirely.
One of our students wanted to disable WordPress comments, so we created this step-by-step tutorial for him.
- Go to Settings > Discussion.
Uncheck the “Allow people to post comments on new articles” and the “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) ” settings.
The pingbacks feature of WordPress is like commenting for computers. It allows other blogs to leave a comment/link on your blog to their blog if they mention you. Unfortunately, in many cases it’s not useful and is a bit like link-spam.
Finally, at the bottom, save your changes and you’re done. If for some reason you still get commenting at the bottom of some posts, you’ll need to go to those individual posts and uncheck the settings for commenting.
I agree that the Disable Comments plugin works great for totally disabling commenting site-wide. Alternatively, if you want to disable comments on an existing site, in Settings > Discussion, set Automatically close comments on articles older than __ days to 0. You can also [url=http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/14/using-quick-edit-and-bulk-edit-to-manage-your-posts-in-half-the-time/]bulk edit posts/pages[/url] to quickly disable comments on multiple posts/pages.
Nice tricks, Chad! Thanks for posting them.
That’s really a cool hack Chad. Thanks!
I am using free version of akismet for a long time for my wordpress sites, it works great actually. Didn’t need to disable all the comments.
Very difficult topic you picked and it is still to say definitely about two of its options. You well covered all the merits and demerits and did full justice with the topic.
I think it also depends upon the niche of one’s blog. If niche relates to an industry where nothing is worthy of selling then obviously he has to rely on PPC options to earn money. For that he needs not to build a community.
Yes for those blogging on popular niche they must continue commenting option and should not think to disable it. They can’t make money without building a community and commenting plays a big role for this task.
Thanks a lot for sharing this very debate igniting post.
Blog commenting has its purpose, to allow the reader to express their thoughts and provide an interaction with the writer and other readers. Of course its detrimental when someone comes and do Spam links but easily blocked.
Thank you so much. I use twenty sixteen theme and have been looking for sometime to turn comments on for pages. I was half right but didn’t tick allow comments at bottom! Thank you i had just about given UP.
The “Disable Comments plugin DOES NOT WORK GREAT seeing as it has ad-scripts running in the background”
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