How to Close Comments in WordPress Blog Posts After Some Certain Days of Publishing

January 29th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

I have seen many WordPress blogs taking this approach. They use to close comments after 30 days or 2 months of writing the blog post. So if you have some current affairs blog or a blog that updates your on offers & price of products, you can think of trying it. But I am not a big supporter of this method. Even with those blogs you may want to comment something so that later users get the correct info for that time. Only solid reason that I find is for dofollow blogs. If you have a dofollow blog, other webmasters might try to take advantage & there is every possibility that they would make a meaningless comment on an old blog post that has nothing to do in current context.

So now I will just tell you how to do it because the choice is up to you :)

So to close comments on WordPress blogs after some specific days just go to Settings> Discussion from your WordPress dashboard. Search for the line “Automatically close comments on articles older than” & then you can find the option to specify the number of days after publishing the blog post. Don’t forget to check the checkbox & save it. You are done. Comment option for all of your WordPress blog posts will now get closed after that specified days.

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  1. Selurus
    January 29th, 2010 at 13:04 | #1
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    Thanks for highlighting this useful feature but I do agree with the view point that its essential to keep the discussion open to allow readers to add latest information or merely to express their views which may not always be within a specific period.

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