Title: Comments not working for old posts
Last modified: May 29, 2020

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# Comments not working for old posts

 *  Resolved [beornn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beornn/)
 * (@beornn)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-for-old-posts/)
 * For some reasons comments have been switched off or aren’t working on old posts
   on my website. If I publish new posts it is working fine. I’ve check individual
   and overall settings and comments are switched on. I uninstalled jetpack to see
   if it would make a difference but it didn’t.
 * Any suggestions?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcomments-not-working-for-old-posts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Steven (LyraThemes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenlyrathemes/)
 * (@stevenlyrathemes)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-for-old-posts/#post-12914336)
 * Hi [@beornn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beornn/),
 * Thanks for getting in touch!
 * Do you mind checking under Settings > Discussion, and seeing if “Automatically
   close comments on articles older than X days” is enabled?
 * Hopefully disabling this setting will do the trick for you.
 *  Thread Starter [beornn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beornn/)
 * (@beornn)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-for-old-posts/#post-12916431)
 * Oh wow I somehow missed that setting!
 * And phew, thanks, that worked! 🙂
 *  [Steven (LyraThemes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenlyrathemes/)
 * (@stevenlyrathemes)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-for-old-posts/#post-12916447)
 * Happy to hear that, thanks for the follow up! 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Steven (LyraThemes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevenlyrathemes/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-for-old-posts/#post-12916447)
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