How to completely disable comments (on future and old posts)

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    hanz · Member ·

    Hello,
    I have a blog on wp.com.

    I tried going to thisisme.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php?updated=true and I removed the checkbox for “Allow people to post comments on new articles”.

    I made a new post and before i hit the publish button, i made sure that there was no check in the box for “Allow comments on this post”.

    Yet I still see the “Leave a comment” link.

    Plus, for an older post, I removed the check in the box for “Allow comments on this post”. Yet I also see a “Leave a comment” link there.

    Help!

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    sambauers · Member ·

    You did not specify a blog address or reason for posting when you created this topic.

    This support forum is for WordPress.com hosted blogs only. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog you need to seek help at the WordPress.org forums, not here.

    If you don’t understand the difference, you may find this information helpful.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    You can’t get rid of that link, no matter what, on WordPress.com. I don’t think you can even make it invisible with the paid CSS upgrade.

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    hmm???

    On my test blog, I tried the themes Unsleepable, and also Blix. Disabled comments for a post.
    Unsleepable shows two comment balloons and the word “closed.”
    “Blix” shows no link to commenting.
    Tried “Dusk” (as is the theme of the op/questioner http://thisisme.wordpress.com/2005/11/04/this-is-me/ ) and it says “comments off” in my test blog.

    My test blog is private, so the post has no comments, but perhaps that is the difference? I must sleep, so I don’t have time to add a comment to that post and re-test. Perhaps once there is a comment, you can not turn off the “leave a comment?”

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    ORLY??? That’s big news. I’ve never heard of a theme that was aware enough to do that, and those are not new themes, either. Maybe they’ve been fixed, or maybe nobody tried them before?

    Anyway, thanks.

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    dunno.

    I only just tried it.
    Might be just that my test blog is private with no comments on the post I tested?

    shrug…

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