Title: Disable comments not working
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Disable comments not working

 *  Resolved [adcworks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adcworks/)
 * (@adcworks)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-not-working/)
 * Hi,
 * My blog entries are getting spammed big time and I get an email each time. So
   I decided to just turn off comments which is a shame.
 * However, even disabling comments on each post, comments still keep getting submitted.
 * What can I do to stop WordPress from accepting comments?

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 *  [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/)
 * (@drmike)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-not-working/#post-575393)
 * Are you sure they’re not trackbacks? May have to turn them off as well.
 *  [aar0on](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aar0on/)
 * (@aar0on)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-not-working/#post-575403)
 * You can simply open the page.php and single.php pages in your template and delete
   the code that allows a comment window to appear. It might look something like
   this:
 * `<?php comments_template(); ?>` Just delete it and re-upload those two or three
   files that have it included and all instances of a comment box will be erased.
 *  Thread Starter [adcworks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adcworks/)
 * (@adcworks)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-not-working/#post-575495)
 * i will look into turning off ping and trackbacks thanks, and setting those off
   on older posts with the sql
 * UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status=”closed”;
 * thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [adcworks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adcworks/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-comments-not-working/#post-575495)
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