Unwanted Disabling of Comments
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I currently have the “Allow people to post comments on new articles” box checked in the Discussion settings, but from time to time, comments will randomly be disabled for a few posts I put up. Is there a reason this is happening? Are there other factors that influence whether or not comments are disabled for a post? No one that posts on our site is disabling them individually.
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All WordPress blogs have comments open on all pages and all posts by default. Blogger need to take action in order to close theme and over the course of 9 years of answering questions here I have never heard of what you describe happening spontaneously.
You can enable and disable comments on free hosted WordPress.com blogs on this page > Settings > Discussion Discussion settings is where you set up defaults for comments.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/You can override the default settings and enable or disable future comments on any individual post or page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
See also for faster ways:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/comments-off-1/Note this image comments and pingbacks enabled http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/discussion-metabox.png?w=688
Note this image comments and pingbacks disabled
https://support.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/module-toggle1.png?w=688Important Note: By default, new blogs on WordPress.com will have the Discussion hidden. You can reveal it by clicking on Screen Options http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ on the top right corner of your Admin page, and checking the box that says Discussion so the module is included. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules
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