Title: Turning Off Comments
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Turning Off Comments

 *  [colorofdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colorofdreams/)
 * (@colorofdreams)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-3/)
 * How do I turn off comments so no new comments can be made but already posted 
   comments are still viewable?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [resiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resiny/)
 * (@resiny)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-3/#post-391647)
 * delete wp-comments-post.php
 *  Thread Starter [colorofdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colorofdreams/)
 * (@colorofdreams)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-3/#post-391651)
 * Thanks, that helped but if I turn off comments on a particular post you can no
   longer view already posted comments as it says “commens closed”. Is there a way
   to turn off further posts without it taking away the link to view comments already
   posted?
 *  [resiny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/resiny/)
 * (@resiny)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-3/#post-391652)
 * You could take out the comment form
 * not the whole comment template, but just the form for entering and submitting
   comments….
 *  Thread Starter [colorofdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colorofdreams/)
 * (@colorofdreams)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-3/#post-391654)
 * But that would take away comments from all posts unless I’m misunderstanding 
   what you mean?
 * Let me try to explain what I want… I’m a TERRIBLE explainer, lol. I want to turn
   off comments on any given post but still have visitors and myself able to view
   the comments that were posted before I did so. But I want people to be able to
   comment on say, the newest post.
 * I tried a plugin I found a while back that turned comments off after a certain
   amount of days but #1 it didn’t work and #2 it did the same, closed it altogether
   so comments couldn’t even be viewed.

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 * Last reply from: [colorofdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colorofdreams/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-3/#post-391654)
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