Title: Turning Comments off?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Turning Comments off?

 *  [Brain916](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brain916/)
 * (@brain916)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-comments-off/)
 * Ok, I turned off the comments after having over 600 blog entries, and after that
   I went to each individual entry and manually turned them off.
 * But still spammers are some how still posting. Everyone is turned off, I even
   look and at the bottom it says Comments Closed.
 * So how are they still spamming the comments on my blog? And how can I make them
   stop? Thank you.

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 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-comments-off/#post-370963)
 * Oi, manually turned them all off? That musta been a pain, especially since with
   a database query you coulda turned them off for all posts in about 3 seconds.
   😉
 * Anyway, are they actually comments or are they pingback/trackbacks?
 * And make sure “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” is checked 
   on the Options page.
 * BTW, why did you turn off comments? Due to the spam? Or did you just not want
   any comments anymore?
 * If it was due to the spam, then you should know that there are MANY great anti-
   spam plugins out there, including [Spam Karma 2](http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/)
   which is what I use.
 * See also:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam](http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Comment_Spam](http://codex.wordpress.org/Comment_Spam)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools)
 *  Thread Starter [Brain916](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brain916/)
 * (@brain916)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-comments-off/#post-370966)
 * yea due to spam. actually theuy are trackbacks I believe, because it says much
   of nothing, and the title is a link
 *  Thread Starter [Brain916](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brain916/)
 * (@brain916)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-comments-off/#post-370969)
 * update:
 * they are using Trackbacks/Pingbacks »»> to do this
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-comments-off/#post-370987)
 * If you can access your WordPress database through an admin tool like phpMyAdmin(
   or whatever your host may provide), here’s an SQL query that will shut off comments
   and ping/trackbacks on your posts:
 * `UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = 'closed', ping_status = 'closed';`
 * Just make sure the table prefix (‘wp_’ on `wp_posts`) is the one you’re using.

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