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Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:49:17 +0000

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Keyur on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Keyur — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:52:38 +0000

Hello, I have unchecked Allow people to post comments on new articles and also go to Posts -> Select all posts -> Edit -> Don't allow comments and Pings -> Update.
Still i am getting comments daily .
Any Solutions please ?

Paul on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Paul — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:36:42 +0000

Ok, problem solved.

I created a new page.
In 'screen options' you can select whatever you want to see on the page you are currently working on. Like "comments".
But what is very important when you select this options that you have to "refresh" the page. After that the option appear on the page you are editing.
If you deselect "comments" they disappear from your created page. Pheww. At last.

Wordpress needs to do something about this. It is not userfriendly like this.

Case closed.

Paul on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Paul — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:41:39 +0000

Thank you for all your reply's, but whatever I try, it doesn't work.
Somebody told me to change the code in page.php from my theme. He told me: Remove this code: <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
I did and guess what. You still can add comments on my new pages!
Could it be a bug in the Dutch WordPress?

Edit post:
I am positive it is a bug! I disabled it and still I have comments on my pages.

Konstantin Kovshenin on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Konstantin Kovshenin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:26:12 +0000

Or! Hook to a publish_post, see if it's a page and turn commenting off programmatically. I think this is 100% plugin territory.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:00:57 +0000

You can't do it automagically (yet) but you can do it manually. Once you make the page, go in and turn off comments.

Seriously that works :) Sucks that it's manual, though :/

I'm pretty sure this idea's out there, btu I can't find it.

Paul on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Paul — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:26 +0000

Yes,

I want comments off on my new PAGES, but not for my POSTS.

I tried everything to get this done, but without success.

I am using the last Dutch version 3.3.1 of Wordpress.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:36:52 +0000

You can already do that.

You may need to click 'Screen Options' to show the discussion meta box, but there's a way to disable comments per page.

Now if you're saying 'I want comments off on my PAGES but not my POSTS' that's something else :)

Paul on "Enable or disable comments for new pages"

Paul — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:43:52 +0000

It's a very simple modification.

Just add a select box when you made and selected a new page. With this selectbox you can enable or disable comments for this specific page.

Thats all!!

Best regards from Paul