to go to Settings -> Discussion in the WordPress admin and uncheck the “Allow people to post comments on new articles” option. Doing so will disable comments for all future posts.
for help : https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/
Actually, that first post helped – I didn’t realise I could do this by modifying the theme files, I thought I’d have to modify WP files. 🙂 I’ve managed now, thank you.
This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by angeljs.