Title: Activating Comments Sitewide Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Activating Comments Sitewide * Resolved [bennadler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennadler/) * (@bennadler) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/) * For some reason, by default on all new sites users comments are turned off. No idea why this is happening. After looking at their sites, it says comments are on, but for some reason they are still turned off on posts. Quite annoying. * Is there anyway I can mass edit their sites to allow comments? It would be a pain to manually go into 50 blogs and turn it on one by one. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622364) * Are you running any plugins? Especially any pertaining to comments? * Thread Starter [bennadler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennadler/) * (@bennadler) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622436) * Nope. No plugins pertaining to comments. * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622464) * Got a link to your site? * Thread Starter [bennadler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennadler/) * (@bennadler) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622525) * Sure. [http://www.realestatemarbles.com](http://www.realestatemarbles.com). * It seems the WordPress MU Sitewide Tags plugin is turning off comments for new posts on the main blog, which is weird (I have the posts copied to the main blog rather than to a sub-blog). * Even if the posts themselves have comments turned on on their respective sites, they don’t turn on on the homepage. * Frustrating. * [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/) * (@dsader) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622529) * Displaying 0 comments as the comment count is not the same as turning comments off. Following a post link from the main blog should still take reader to the open comment form on the sub-blog. Do not edit the duped posts at the main blog either, no point as the save only goes in one direction, from the sub-blog to the man blog. * I use the following function to add correct comment counts to post meta listed at the main blog by Donncha’s sitewide tags plugin. * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags-pages-comment-numbers](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags-pages-comment-numbers) * [raskull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raskull/) * (@raskull) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622532) * Does the file that powers the theme’s homepage support the display of comments? * [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/) * (@dsader) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622547) * Donncha’s Sitewide tags plugin only indexes all posts from public blogs. You’ll need a separate plugin to go after indexing the comments. * Thread Starter [bennadler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennadler/) * (@bennadler) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622579) * David, * I understand some of the posts have 0 comments. However, many posts just say “ Comments Off” at the bottom even though on their respective blogs comments are on. That is the issue. * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622580) * It’s built in the plugin. It closes the comments because there’s no point in having them there. * [Jason Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasontrasaterracom/) * (@jasontrasaterracom) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622653) * I understand logically there’s no point in having comments in the Sitewide fed pages. However, it’s makes for bad UX. A user sees the post and thinks they can’t comment on it. Would you recommend we just fake it and duplicate the permalink title code by inserting that into a fake comments link for the benefit of users? * [Jason Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasontrasaterracom/) * (@jasontrasaterracom) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622654) * Actually, that’s just no good, because the Sitewide aggregator is still often used as a blog for original content in the site I’m working on. Is there anyway way you could modify the plugin to keep comments on but of course send users to the appropriate comment area site in the Multisite system? * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622655) * Why not modify the theme for your tags site to change ‘leave a comment’ to link back? * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622656) * If they click on the permalink to read the post, then they will go to the original post – with comments. * [Jason Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasontrasaterracom/) * (@jasontrasaterracom) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622657) * Yes of course. But it’s confusing for users to see the ‘comments off’ when that is actually not exactly the case. It would be advantageous if the plugin dynamically sensed comments from the site it’s pulling from and when the user clicks it takes them to the sub-site where they can comment. * [@ipstenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) the blog is both an aggregator and used for original posts so I’d need to leave the option for direct comments open in the default way. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/#post-1622658) * > the blog is both an aggregator and used for original posts so I’d need to leave > the option for direct comments open in the default way. * Do you ever have op’s with closed comments? If not, just change the verbiage from ‘Comments Closed’ and cheat the system 🙂 * Otherwise, you’d have to look into finding a way to detect that it’s a tags post in the loop and process that. * Or … y’know move the OPs to their own blog. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Activating Comments Sitewide’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 17 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [Jason Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasontrasaterracom/) * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-comments-sitewide/page/2/#post-1622660) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics