Turn off comments

go to wp-admin, click on options–discussion, and uncheck the box next to “Allow people to post comments on the article”

Go to Options > Discussion in WordPress, and uncheck “Allow people to post comments on the article”. You may also want to uncheck “Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)”.

This will only affects future posts; to change this on pre-existing ones you’ll either need to edit each, or run the following query on your database to hit them all at once:

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = 'closed', ping_status = 'closed' WHERE comment_status = 'open';

just don’t call it a blog, because it’s not a true blog if it doesn’t have comments or trackbacks, imo

Thanks very much. I’m new to this, please instruct me how to run a query on my database…thanks again.

use phpMyAdmin from your control panel

(phpMyAdmin is not available through the WordPress interface–you have to go through the server hosting your site–sometimes it can be found at https://www.foo.com/cpanel (replace foo with your domain name)

Thanks VERY much! All comments are off, and I’m happy!

Mkgago, that can be a nice discussion:

“because it’s not a true blog if it doesn’t have comments or trackbacks, imo”

That means I don’t have a blog! Damn! I’m always telling people I have a weblog, but it’s not! Just because I don’t want all that nonsense on my pages (including those ‘hey there…’ and ‘nice job!” or “I don’t agree” stuff ?? )

Trackback and ping? I don’t know. I don’t find them so interesting personally.

Look, I said that partly to be provocative, but to me, the great thing about blogs is that they create communities of users–ideally, the blog becomes a place where a lot of people congregate to discuss things.

Trackbacks and pings are essential aspects of blogging–they are what allow you to connect your site to others….

I guess mine would not be called a blog then. I don’t want comments mostly because I don’t care what people think (those that I don’t know) about what I say. I have my website for myself mostly, and for my friends who I am unfortunately distanced from now. So I am adding them as users, and they can just post whenever they want. I’m not sure what to actually call it, so I’ll just go with website.

mrsbrightside, I was just kidding ?? call it whatever you want–WordPress is a piece of blogging software.

Since we were calling them blogs long before commenting and trackbacks were slipped into them, I’d think you still get to call it that.

These kids today…

Could someone offer a little more advice on how to run that script?

I see mySQL Databases on the control panel, but I don’t see a way to run a script.

Help! Spam is killing me.