Seriously, how do you turn off comments?

  • Resolved nicklock

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    10 years, 3 months ago

    I’m using 4.1. Using various themes catchbox, evolution, 2015 etc. Whichever of them I use I have a gigantic Leave a Reply at the bottom.

    So I went into Settings, Discussion Allow people to post comments on new articles.

    It was unchecked. Checked homepage. Leave a Reply still there. Refresh. Yep. Still there. Used Firefox, Chrome. Private window. Nothing.

    So I checked allow people to post comments on new articles. Saved. Unchecked it. Saved. Refresh.

    Leave a Reply still there!

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  • After you disable comments for all new posts. You have to go back disable comments for every post and page you’ve already created.

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/

    Even though it pertains to WordPress.com, it can still be of some help.

    Thread Starter nicklock

    (@nicklock)

    That didn’t work but you saved me anyway so thanks!

    I forgot to add when you are editing or adding a new post/page there is no option anywhere to turn comments off.

    BUT, if you click on the pages or posts heading and then hover over the page/post you want to turn comments off and hit “quick edit” there will be a box there checked next to “allow comments”.

    You’re gonna wanna uncheck that before you kill someone! I mean, yeah just uncheck that and you should be good.

    WordPress, please, a huge on/off, default across the board, circuit breaker type switch – comments on/off button please.

    Thanks Marc! Made me think!

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