For some reason I am getting thousands of spam comments each day.
Navigate to your plugin menu and activate Akismet. Or look for other anti-spam plugins.
See also the Combating_Comment_Spam page in the Codex.
I have unchecked “Allow comments” on mysite/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
You mean the discussion box found in the Visual Editor
How can I turn off all comments for the whole site?
Go to your ‘Settings’ tab in the dashboard then go to the ‘Discussion’ section and uncheck the box labelled ‘Allow people to comment on new articles’.
I have unchecked ‘Allow people to comment on new articles’. Comments are still coming in.
I am using Akismet. It works but the comments still build up in SPAM folder. If I don’t get on for a few days, I may have 20-30,000 comments and then I have trouble deleting them.
Can I turn off ALL comments?
I have unchecked ‘Allow people to comment on new articles’. Comments are still coming in.
You will also need to untick “Allow comments” in the Discussion pane on each Edit Post for each of your published Posts. If you can’t see the discussion box, click on ‘Screen Options’ in the upper right hand corner of the dashboard and tick ‘Discussion’.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam/FAQ#I_have_disabled_comments.2C_but_comments_continue_to_be_posted
You can ‘Bulk Edit‘ posts also and change them to ‘no comments’.
Tip: Use Screen Options to edit more posts at once. (And be careful here)
Thanks everyone. That fixed it.
