Title: Turning off comments
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Turning off comments

 *  [jon12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon12345/)
 * (@jon12345)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-4/)
 * I seem to be inundated with spam comments at the moment. Is it possible to turn
   off the ability of someone to submit comments to my blog?
 * Thanks,
 * Jon

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 *  Thread Starter [jon12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon12345/)
 * (@jon12345)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-4/#post-554941)
 * Please note that I have just upgraded to 2.1 and I am still getting these spam
   comments. I just want to turn the comment feature off. How?
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-4/#post-554943)
 * admin -> Options
    check users must be registered and logged in to comment
 * This won’t stop your problem. You’re likely getting trackback spam.
    Install 
   Bad Behavior (google for it) along with Akismet or Spam Karma2. This will stop
   that junk cold.
 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-4/#post-554946)
 * Yes in the dashboard under the options tab, then under Discussion there are two
   options that you can uncheck
    - Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)
    - Allow people to post comments on the article.
 * This will disable commenting and pinging.
    There are a few plugins that would
   also help ease the strain of spam and still allow commenting. One is Askimet 
   which is included in every wordpress installation. Just go to the plugins page
   activate it and follow the instructions [here](http://wordpress.com/api-keys/).
   Another great plugin is [Bad Behavior](http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/)
 *  Thread Starter [jon12345](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jon12345/)
 * (@jon12345)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-4/#post-554994)
 * I have unchecked the two options you mention, but I am still getting spam comments.
   Why is that? Seems odd since I have unchecked these items.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/turning-off-comments-4/#post-555004)
 * Please re-read samboll’s first post to you. The key is that these are trackbacks,
   not comments.

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