Cutting off comments on old posts.

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  acerobb · Member · Jul 7, 2018 at 9:36 pm

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  I have an old post (2013) that seems to be a spam magnet. I’d prefer not to delete it, nor do I want to delete the legitimate comments. But I’d like to cut off any future comments on the post. Is there a way to do that?

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  catkiinson · Staff · Jul 7, 2018 at 9:49 pm

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  Hi,

  You can read about Discussion Settings in this support document:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  You might want to consider:

  Other Comment Settings
  3. Automatically close comments on articles older than __ days – This setting can be used to have comments closed on articles that are X days old. As an example, if you only want articles to accept comments for 30 days you would check the box and type 30 into the text field.

  Hope this helps :)

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  acerobb · Member · Jul 7, 2018 at 10:09 pm

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  Thank you! I’ve set the automatic closure. Hope it works.

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  catkiinson · Staff · Jul 7, 2018 at 11:14 pm

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  You’re welcome. Let me know if you need any further support :)