Disable or remove "comments closed" message?

Hello Toni,
You can manually set up the settings going to Settings->Discussion ->Default Article Setting-> Check the Allow people to post comments on new articles. Then Going to Other comment settings Uncheck the Automatically close comments on articles older than …days. Save changes and it should remove the “comments closed” message.

Regards.

the text for this is in comments.php of the theme.

you should be able to hide this with CSS:

.comments-closed { display: none; }

in style.css of a child theme or via a custom CSS plugin.

Great, thanks to all. I will go with the CSS solution. The other solution is good to know…but

I don’t understand the Comments plugins I’m using well enough to change settings in the WP settings. I have several sites with different set ups.

@micheal – that’s exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks again
Cheers!

Oh it didn’t work – the CSS. I used Site Origins CSS plug-in. I’ve messed with comments settings so much – who knows? Maybe a child theme then.

@wen I didn’t understand what you were doing – I thought you were just enabling comments – I think I get it. I’ll try it. Thanks! Nope when I disable comments it comes back.

Maybe I wrote the CSS wrong?

@micheal – The CSS “display-none” came up in the CSS Comments-closed / Text Decoration section – borders, etc.
So the text is still there.

(The Site Origins CSS plugin has a visual interface with drop-downs etc – which I did not use. I did it manually.)

Oh! Comments-closed only appears on the Home page. After excerpts. So it is working to an extent.

I have the same issue as Toni. The comment-closed still appears after the excerpts. Is there any way to get rid of that? Thanks! It’s a great theme!

please post a link to a web page where the ‘comments closed’ shows.

hi Michael, thanks for your reply, this is the site:

https://carlowartsfestival.com/

You’ll see that beside the ‘continue reading’ button after the excerpt there is the ‘comments closed’

also add:

.blog .comments-link { display: none; }

or simply:

.comments-link { display: none; }

I will try that too.

It worked. YES! I used your first example.

Big thanks Micheal!