adding “Comments Closed” to theme

…and the slightly more polite version of that last remark is:

go to this part of the code you posted:

<?php comments_popup_link('<strong>No Comments</strong> »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>

and where it says ‘No Comments’, change that to ‘Closed for Comments’.

but going back to the subject, if you want it to be ACTUALLY CLOSED to comments, you should disable the comments on the admin menu (discussion) , either for ALL POSTS on the blog, or on a post-by-post basis when you actually publish .

your anger is misplaced..i am not the person who asked the original question

you are right .(although it is hardly ANGER but more close to amazement, astonishment, awe, or bewilderment..) .
I failed to notice it was a different poster ..
But none the less, I still stand behind what I wrote about the fact that people must also use common sense before flooding the forums with problems of this kind …. (just like not flagging a post as resolved, not pasting urls for help with themes and css, not posting methods for self-resolved problems etc. etc.)

We have the CODEX, the SEARCH function on the forum, and there is always Google also if everything else fails .
But before all these, there is COMMON SENSE, regardless of the actual technical knowledge of WordPress itself.

if i were someone who didn’t know anything about wordpress, would have meant absolutely nothing to me

Somehow I think that if one knows ENGLISH good enough to post the question here , one would be able to see the words one was looking for (e.g. – ‘No Comments’) in the code pasted by oneself.

Said the above , I am very sorry if my answer offended someone, or resembled in any way as ill temper, impatience, antagonist ,intolerant or violent.

First of all,

have learned something here though, and that is not to ask for assistance here

I am very sorry if this is the case… This was not at all my intention to offend someone by replying to a post, and like I said,I am sorry if you got offended somehow…

..So I mistakenly came here for help

You did not came to the wrong, You came to the right place for help, (and in fact, on the front page of this “place” there is a seach field and links to FAQ,CODEX,etc..)

but ,

I have searched the codex..

From the CODEX :

<?php comments_popup_link( 'No comments yet', '1 comment', '% comments so far', 'comments-link', 'Comments are off for this post'); ?>

Parameters

zero
(string) Text to display when there are no comments. Defaults to ‘No Comments’.
one
(string) Text to display when there is one comment. Defaults to ‘1 Comment’.
more
(string) Text to display when there are more than one comments. ‘%’ is replaced by the number of comments, so ‘% so far’ is displayed as “5 so far” when there are five comments. Defaults to ‘% Comments’.
CSSclass
(string) CSS (stylesheet) class for the link. This has no default value.
none
(string) Text to display when comments are disabled. Defaults to ‘Comments Off’.

I can’t imagine anyone not being offended by the responses you gave as well as the tone of them.

Krembo99 is a very dedicated helper, and maybe you had the bad luck catching him on a bad day. but my experiences with his answers never struck me as offending.

Apparantly the code written above is not enough: You need to embed the code in an if statement:

Hide Comment Link When Comments Are Deactivated

Hides the paragraph element <p></p> that contains the comments_popup_link when comments are deactivated in the Write>Post screen. Good for those who want enable/disable comments post by post. Must be used in the loop.

<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<p>
<?php comments_popup_link( 'No comments yet', '1 comment', '% comments so far', 'comments-link', 'Comments are off for this post'); ?>
</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Peter

you had the bad luck catching him on a bad day

This was exactly the case …

In your index.php put this

<?php if ( comments_open() && pings_open() ) {
// Both Comments and Pings are open ?>
<?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?>
<?php } elseif ( !comments_open() && pings_open() ) {
// Only Pings are Open ?>
Responses are currently closed.
<?php } elseif ( comments_open() && !pings_open() ) {
// Comments are open, Pings are not ?>
<?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?>
. Pinging is currently not allowed.
<?php } elseif ( !comments_open() && !pings_open() ) {
// Neither Comments, nor Pings are open ?>
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
<?php } ?>
<?php endif; ?>

instead of this :

<?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?>

notr that you MIGHT need to delete one <?php endif; ?> if it gives you error …

do that wherever you have the comments (single.php,custom pages, etc..

you see, the thing is , that wordpress see trackback as comments under some conditions.
To see what I mean, toggle off the trackbacks and pings options, on the posts that are closed to comments, end voila .. the right text appears.
WHen opening the trackbacks and pings, even if the comments are closed, wordpress see it as open.
This is why in the code i pasted they are seperated by an IF condition.

Guys, I want to have an even more complex solution to how to display comments counts and links. I’ll try to explain.

Post 1: Comments are off on post, don’t want to display “Comments off” instead of a comments link.

Post 2: Comments are on, comments count and link displayed.

Post 3: Comments has been on, but is auto off in admin after x days. Want to display comment count and link displayed.

Is that possible to do with WordPress?