CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 705

How to turn off all WordPress commenting

In my WordPress site, I did the following:

  1. Went to Settings / Discussion and unchecked "Allow people to post comments on new articles".

  2. Went to Posts / All Posts, selected all, select EDIT under Bulk Actions, selected Do Not Allow, then clicked Update.

Yet, I am still getting emails "A new comment on the post _ is waiting for your approval". And its always spam.

How do I make this stop?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1405

Answers (3)

Musik8101
Musik8101

Reputation: 575

I'm placing this as an answer because I do not have enough reputation points to comment but What Howlin meant to say is. If you do not see the discussion box under the text area that has an option to Allow Comments, Go to Screen Options and make sure the discussion box it is Checked.

The Screen Options allow you to check or uncheck different Options panels that will display on the screen. So by checking the Discussion Box you will display a panel under the text area that has an option to Allow or Disallow Comments. That gives you another option to regulate discussion on a per page or post basis.

Upvotes: 0

Narendra
Narendra

Reputation: 464

Add this code to your theme's function.php file

// Close comments on the front-end
    function df_disable_comments_status() {
        return false;
    }
    add_filter('comments_open', 'df_disable_comments_status', 20, 2);
    add_filter('pings_open', 'df_disable_comments_status', 20, 2);

    // Hide existing comments
    function df_disable_comments_hide_existing_comments($comments) {
        $comments = array();
        return $comments;
    }
    add_filter('comments_array', 'df_disable_comments_hide_existing_comments', 10, 2);

It will turn off your all comments Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Howli
Howli

Reputation: 12469

Edit a post or page and :

  • Under the text area, if there is a discussion box, make sure Allow comments. box is unticked.
  • In the top right hand side of the page there is the Screen Options tab, click that and make sure the discussion box is unticked.

That should do it.

Upvotes: 0

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