Contributor articles default to no comments allowed

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  kelseyr713 · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 4:43 pm

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  I recently added new contributors, and their articles default to allowing no comments and no pingbacks. I can manually fix this, but it’s a pain. Contributors from before adding new ones do not have this issue.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 4:44 pm

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  That’s strange. I’ve never heard of it before. I tagged this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  kelseyr713 · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 4:45 pm

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  Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 4:46 pm

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  The contributors ought to be able to set each of their post to accept comments and pingbacks.
  http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/discussion-metabox.png?w=688
  From: http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/

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  kelseyr713 · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 4:51 pm

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  I will have them try it! Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 4, 2015 at 4:58 pm

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  You’re welcome. Post again if you need help, as I have removed the tagging for Staff until we can confirm whether or not the contributors are setting their posts up to accept comments and pingbacks.

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  kelseyr713 · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 6:44 pm

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  I ended up changing contributors to authors, which seems to have fixed the problem. They did not have the option to enable or disable comments, so I’m not sure why their posts defaulted to no comments. Thanks for the help!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 6:45 pm

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  I think Staff may need to know about this so I tagged this thread for a follow-up. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 11:08 pm

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  I just ran a few tests by inviting another one of my accounts to be a contributor on a test blog. The contributor posts seem to follow the Discussion settings and Sharing settings set globally for the blog so I’m not sure what could have happened here.

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  kelseyr713 · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 6:26 pm

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  The same thing is happening again now, even with the new writers set to Author. I have to manually go in and change the comments settings on their posts.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 6:29 pm

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  Thread tagged again for Staff intervention.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 7:33 pm

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  Hi!

  The next time a contributor submits a post, could you let me know the title so I can take a look? If possible, I’d like to take a peek before you manually switch back the comments.

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  kelseyr713 · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 7:38 pm

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  Sure thing, Jeremy! The next time will be tomorrow morning; I’ll come back with a link.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 9:37 pm

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  Sounds great!