stopping photo comments

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  albedoarlee · Member · Mar 15, 2018 at 11:25 pm

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  Is there any way short of displaying photos as media file or none, to stop comments after a certain time frame?

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  ravichahar · Member · Mar 16, 2018 at 3:23 am

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  Hey albedoarlee,

  You can control the comments from the post editor. There is a checkbox to allow comments for each post.

  You can uncheck it when you don’t want people to comment.

  Please check this screenshot. https://prnt.sc/irv28r

  I hope this helps.

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  albedoarlee · Member · Mar 16, 2018 at 11:52 am

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  Thanks , but it doesn’t help, as that is for posts, not for the photos within them.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 18, 2018 at 10:38 am

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  Hi there,

  To disable comments on the image attachment pages and the gallery carousel you’ll need to edit the images from the WP-Admin dashboard here:

  https://albedoarlee2.wordpress.com/wp-admin/upload.php?mode=list

  To have them disabled by default you’ll need to disable comments for your site at My Site ->Settings ->Discussion. That will disable them for new posts as well, but you can turn them back on per-post in the editor. Changing that setting won’t affect posts and images that are already on your site.

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  albedoarlee · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 4:04 pm

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  So, in other words, i can’t edit each photo posted for no comments: the only way to have no comments on photos is to set the display as “media file” or “none”–because i see no option on the list to stop comments *anywhere* on photos, singly or separately.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 18, 2018 at 5:25 pm

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  So, in other words, i can’t edit each photo posted for no comments:

  That is the exact opposite of what I said above. I said you have to edit each image individually to turn off comments for the images already on your site.

  Go to the link I gave above, and click the Edit link on any image, for example https://albedoarlee2.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3722&action=edit

  You’ll see a checkbox to enable or disable comments in the Discussion section there.

  For new images you have a choice: either disable comment by default and only enable them on specific posts where you want them, or keep them enabled in which case you’ll need to manually disable them for each new image you upload.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 5:29 pm

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  Sorry for repeating:
  If you upload a lot of photos, it will be quicker to turn off commenting for your entire site, but as @kokkieh already mentioned, that will only change new photos that you upload, not ones that you have already uploaded.

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  albedoarlee · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 5:40 pm

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  Ok, it would have helped if i had been informed that the “screen options” toolbar has to be open first for that……

  Thank you, can now “fix”.

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  albedoarlee · Member · Mar 18, 2018 at 5:42 pm

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  nope, no joy, comment section still comes up, even after updating –never mind, i give up.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 19, 2018 at 7:44 am

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  On what image are you still seeing the comments option? You need to disable this for every individual image in your library separately. Disabling comments for one image does not disable it for all.