Many Ways to Disable Comments for WordPress Posts and Pages
Ravi Chahar
Customer Support Specialist || ???? WordPress Professional || Web Developer || Speaker || Social Media Marketer ??
Whenever you add a new page or the post, the comment box gets enabled by default so that your readers can share their views. Do you want to disable comments for WordPress posts and pages?
If you create many pages and below each page, you see the comment box. It wouldn’t be a good impression to anyone.
Though many people even turn off comments for the posts too. It’s because people are really fed up of the spam blog comments.
In this article, you will learn different ways to disable to disable comments for WordPress posts and pages.
Use WordPress Settings to Turn off Comments
WordPress comes up with many settings but most of the users don’t really have an idea.
You would be happy to know that you can turn off the comments be going to Settings>>Discussion and in front of “Default Article Settings”, you will see a few options.
You will see the checkboxes to allow people to comment on the articles and the pings and trackbacks too.
Using Post Editor to Disable Comments for WordPress Posts and Pages
Whether you write a post or create a new page, you can see the WordPress post editor which consists many options to use.
Apart from the visible part, there are some hidden options too.
Here you want to turn off the comments. To do that, you have to click on the “Screen options” button shown at the top-right position of the screen.
A drop down menu with many options will appear.