Suppressing comments on just one post?

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    @tsp,
    Yes, that’s probably the easiest way. There are a few posts in mine that I use to answer questions in the forums (as inexpert as I am!), but I could just copy them to textedit.

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    designsimply · Member ·

    @cathychua, here’s what I would recommend. Go to Settings > Discussion and uncheck everything in the “Default article settings” section at the top. Those are the default settings for new posts, so doing that will make it so any new post you add will have comments off by default. Then you just need to go back into that post edit page and turn on comments whenever you’re ready.

    Note that there is not a way to suspend all comments for all posts from the settings pages. Once a post is created, you must manage the comments settings for that post separately.

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    cathychua · Member ·

    I’m not sure if I’ve made clear what I want to do. I want people to be able to leave comments – I don’t want to turn comments off, only make them not appear until I want them to. Further, I want comments to appear publicly on my other posts while not having them appear on one or two….

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    That cannot be done. The moderation setting effects the entire blog. It cannot be set only for one post.

    My “contact-form” solution is all that I could think of, but you would have to manually transfer the comments that you would receive by email to the blog once you decided to open them up.

    This isn’t even available with the self-hosted version. I did some searching and did not find anything that allowed moderation to be set on a post-by-post basis – either though “hacks to the wordpress software, or via plugins.

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