WordPress Turn on / off comments / comments

Step-by-step guide

If you do not need comments, or receive too many comments / spam, it may be useful to adjust the settings so that you do not get too many unwanted comments (spam).

• Below is described how you can switch them on or off by blog post .
• Below it is described how you can automatically switch them off  after for example 14 days.

For a particular blog post the comments / comments on or off

Choose Posts > All Posts from the left menu 

Then look for the blog post you want to change and hover with your mouse over the title and click on 

Quick Edit :

Then click Allow Comments on or off, and click Update to save it.

Post comments / comments for all blog posts after 2 weeks

To prevent you from getting many spam comments you can automatically turn them off after 2 weeks.

Select Settings > Discussion from the left menu 

Then click on Automatically close comments on articles older than 14 days . You can adjust the number of days if necessary. Then click Save Changes at the bottom .

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