Closing Comments
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Hi,
I’d like to shut down comments on my Blog. That is, not have anyone be able to post — and, if possible, remove the button for comments.
The FAQ gave me instructions — find a button in Options>Writing — but there was nothing there.
Thanks.
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Shutting down discussion on the whole blog
-> Options -> Discussion
Look for this and uncheck it
___Allow people to post comments on the article
Complete the unchecking process for other fields as appropriate
Click “Update Options” to save
Shutting down comments on single posts
On the write page there is a whole line of buttons to the right of the editors box.
They are blue in color. The one you want is “Discussion”.
Discussion +
Post Password +
Post Slug +
Post Status +
Post Timestamp +Click on the + plus sign on Discussion (a drop down opens)
Uncheck
___Allow Comments
___Allow Pings
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Hi,
I really do appreciate that help.
But I already did that. (Unchecked the ___Allow people to post comments on the article box) and, logged out, I can still post comments. So it’s not working.
I contacted WordPress support days ago, and no one has gotten back to me.
CK
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Provided you unchecked that box, completed the other fields as required, and remembered to click “Update Options” to save your changes — comments should be closed.
Volunteers do not have backend access to blogs, only staff can apply technical fixes. I recommend sending in another feedback to staff. -
You have to go through and do each post sperately. Those selections are only for the future posts that you write, not the previous ones.
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Hi guys,
Thanks for the replies.
drmike, that might be the issue. (I didn’t know that.)
I’ll go play around a little later with individual posts and new posts.
Thanks,
CK
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@ christopherkubasik
I’m sorry I forgot to say that the changes you make only apply to new posts. :(
All the old posts will have to be edited and comments closed on them.
The instructions for doing so are above under the title Shutting down comments on single posts -
I also want to completely remove the entire field. I don’t know any other way to say it. I have certain pages that I want to be and look static. Is this something that can’t be done since I don’t have a Web host? I don’t want my posts to say “0 Comments” below them. Does that make sense? I’m new to all this.
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Are you hosted at WordPress.com? Your username is linked to a blogspot blog, and we won’t be able to give you answers for their setup; it’s quite different.
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…and there’s no wordpress.com blog with your username either.
A link would be helpful so we can see what you’re looking at. You will need the CSS upgrade to do this.
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I see! I just started the blog at blogger, but it’s too narrow. I’d like to use WordPress. Right now I only have a libsyn account and a domain name with yahoo that I’m paying for. My WordPress blog (so far) is naturalspeed.wordpress.com. Tnx.
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If you want static pages with no comments, that’s easy. You go to Write Page instead of Write Post, and on the side where they have all the blue headlines you select Discussion and then de-select “allow comments”.
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Nice! Thank you. Now I just have to figure out why my widgets aren’t sticking, and how to navigate this site. This looks very nice. Maybe I can figure out how to just do the whole thing in WP.
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http://naturalspeed.wordpress.com
If you are having trouble with widgets these may help
understanding widgets and how to set them up
understanding your Blogroll, Links widget and Categories -
That helped. I can see there’s still going to be a big learning curve. The jargon is new, etc. Tnx.
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‘comments are closed’ means they are closed for writing (by visitors) only. i.e. they can’t add ones anymore.
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when I do that, the comments no longer appear on the page. I close them by unchecking the allow comments box.
am i doing something wrong?
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