gt

^bump

I can still leave a comment on older posts. Arrrgh! So frustrating.

Podz,

I didn’t have it saved as ‘autoclose.php’ It was saved as ‘closedcomments.php’ I will give it a try with that. But, I basically copied everything like on the plugin page:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Auto-Close Comments
Version: 0.1
Plugin URI: http://wiki.wordpress.org/Auto%20shutoff%20comments
Description: Autoclose comments after XX number of days without a cron job
Author: Scott Hanson
Author URI: http://www.papascott.de/
*/
function autoclose_comments() {
global $wpdb, $tableposts;
// Set $age_cutoff to the age at which a post should become stale
$age_cutoff = ’15 DAY’;
$cutoff_date = $wpdb->get_var (“SELECT DATE_ADD(DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL $age_cutoff), INTERVAL 1 DAY)”);
$wpdb->query (“UPDATE $tableposts SET comment_status = ‘closed’ WHERE post_date < ‘$cutoff_date’ AND post_status = ‘publish'”);
}
add_action(‘publish_post’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
add_action(‘edit_post’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
add_action(‘delete_post’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
add_action(‘comment_post’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
add_action(‘trackback_post’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
add_action(‘pingback_post’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
add_action(‘edit_comment’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
add_action(‘delete_comment’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
add_action(‘template_save’, ‘autoclose_comments’, 7);
?>

That’s exactly what it is on the plugin page except for the interval. Is that right?

I did what you said. I edited a post and set the cutoff to 1. I tried to post a month old post and it still let me. I also installed wp-hashcash and apparently I’m not skilled in getting that right because I got hit with more spam. Any other ideas? Thanks for the help so far.

^bump. Anyone?