Comments on: How to temporarily disable (turn off) all new comments on your WordPress blog

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:34:48 +0000

If you want to enable comments on a specific post, edit the post and check the “Allow Comments” checkbox on the right, in the Discussion window. If you want to allow comments for subsequent posts, look under the Discussion sub-menu under the Options menu. This setting should be checked: “Allow people to post comments on the article”.

If you previously had comments disabled for all posts, the quickest way to enable comments is to run the MySQL database query above.

By: icelebpics

icelebpics — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:26:42 +0000

i cant find the specific code in my comments.php
comments r disabled in my blog and i want to enable it
can u plz help me how to enable an email me
thanks

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:32:41 +0000

You can do this at the database level with the database query:

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = 'open'

For trackbacks and pingbacks:

UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status = 'open'

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:51:21 +0000

Hey there… I’m googling my issue, and I found this.. this is exactly the reverse of what I want to do.

I’ve a client that has 200 posts in his wordpress, and he didn’t want comments last year. Now he wants to allow comments. No problem for future comments.

Wondering if you perhaps tripped over this one: how to recursively turn on comments on past posts?

If you’ve got a trick up your sleeve I’d like to hear it if you got a minute

Thanks for readin’

Tim