How can you turn comments on for all posts?

  • Not sure why Comments Off appears at the bottom of some posts. I can turn comments back on post by post, but is there a way to have comments allowable forever, as that should probably be the default anyway?

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  • Have a look at the Admin > Settings > Discussion settings.

    You’ve probably got “Allow people to post comments on new articles” unchecked.

    Thread Starter 94117777-1

    (@94117777-1)

    Thanks. It was checked. I don’t know why comments are not allowed. It seems that WordPress doesn’t want to allow comments. Is there a box to check somewhere that says “allow comments for all posts”?

    I’ve been going back and forth with these check boxes for months. Is there a way to allow comments forever for older posts without going through 1700 posts one by one?

    I’ve never checked this box but it ends up getting checked by itself, it seems:
    “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”

    Backup your database.

    Use this SQL with phpMyAdmin:

    UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status='open' WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post';

    Thread Starter 94117777-1

    (@94117777-1)

    Yeah, I made it pretty far but I’m afraid of messing things up.

    My site goes down every night at 11:20PM for an hour – I guess that’s host POWWEB’s fault, but nobody else has this problem AFAIK

    Anytime I click on anything, it takes 10 seconds for anything to happen, I guess that’s POWWEB’s fault.

    Every couple of weeks, all my posts go “COMMENTS OFF” without me doing anything. I guess that’s something to do with WP.

    I appreciate people’s help but I’m going to turn my passwords over to somebody I can find to fix things up for me. thanx…

    MichaelH, where do you add the update code. Do you have to go into phpMyAdmin or can you add it to the comment.php?

    I think when I made a post I somehow messed things up. Is that possible?

    Thanks for the help

    Use phpMyAdmin to execute that SQL code. And backup your database before doing anything.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    Every couple of weeks, all my posts go “COMMENTS OFF” without me doing anything. I guess that’s something to do with WP.

    Go to Settings > Discussion in your WP Admin and see what the expiry for your comments is set to. You probably have “Automatically close comments on articles older than XX days” set to 14.

    Thread Starter 94117777-1

    (@94117777-1)

    Well, I have it set to 9999 days and it’s not checked.

    I think I have some kind of bug, maybe having to do with a plug-in. It wouldn’t be all that bad when comments turne themselves off if I could simply turn them on again by click on allow comments for all posts or something. I’m not smart enough to figure out SQL stuff by myself.

    thanks.

    Maybe I’ll switch over to Blogger and see if I can’t make sense of it…

    I have the same problem!

    I noticed it only happen when I upgraded it to 2.8.4.

    Some of the posts (on random days) the comments are turned off, and I can’t turn them on no matter I checked/unchecked and saved and saved again.

    Nothing works! Help?

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