Title: Comments only working on new posts?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Comments only working on new posts?

 *  [Boxer47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boxer47/)
 * (@boxer47)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-only-working-on-new-posts/)
 * I am using WordPress 2014 Theme and just realized I had no comments visible on
   [my posts](http://fightnewsunlimited.com/ufc-president-dana-whites-conflicting-statements-on-drug-testing/).
   Finding another thread related to the issue, I realized I needed to check the
   box for comments being allowed on new posts. That solved the problem for the 
   next post I tried to add as a test, but I would still like comments to appear
   for all my older posts. For some reason, I can’t find a way to accomplish this.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/comments/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comments/)

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 *  [geraintp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geraintp/)
 * (@geraintp)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-only-working-on-new-posts/#post-5665855)
 * Are you using this comments plugin or just wordpress’s default comments mechanism?
 * if your using the default mechanism you need to got to settings and discussion
   and set the defaults for comments on posts.
 * secondly for any old posts, go to view all posts check the posts you need to 
   update and select bulk edit,
 * then turn on comments and save.. as opposed to going though each posts one my
   one to turn on comments.
 * note.. if you have turn off comments in x days… in the discussion settings and
   the posts are older that x days they’ll get shut straight off again the next 
   time the house cleaning action runs in wordpress..

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-only-working-on-new-posts/#post-5665855)
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