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Thanks Tasko — unfortunately, I’m new enough at WP that I’m not sure what that means. I know what Categories are for posts, and thought archives were generated automatically to “store” excess posts chronologically. But I’m not sure how that works with a page instead of posts.

Bemdesign — thank you for that Settings info. “Anyone can register” was checked, but I have unchecked it. Thank you!

Modernart1 — I’ve read about the Akismet app but didn’t want to spend the money. But if you’ve had good success with it I’ll go ahead and give it a try. Thank you for that recommendation!

Thank you, Bryan!

Using the # in the “Link” space made the page go nowhere when clicked, which is what I wanted. Now it is just a header in the menu for the sub-pages beneath.

Thanks very much,
WK

Thanks for the lead — watched the video but couldn’t figure out (after numerous tries) how to apply the instructions to my parent page menu items. I’ll keep working on it.

Thanks, esmi — I’ll do that in the future. The site is https://www.basileiaproductions.com , and the BLOG page link is in the menu bar.

AND . . . I just proved that I’m a WP rookie. I went to the BLOG page on my site and entered a dummy test post and, voila, the comments link and comments apparatus appeared when I posted that test post.

That’s confusing to me because on some of my other static pages, until I turned “Allow Comments” OFF in the QuickEdit window, there was a COMMENTS apparatus on those pages even before I had ever entered any content. Not sure why it’s different on the BLOG page. But, at least I have the comments ability on the BLOG page, so all’s good.

Thanks for instigating that research.

Thanks, Senff, for the instructions, but as kmcminn said, that’s above my pay grade. ??

kmcminn, thanks for the directions. I must have looked at the Quick Edit screen 50 times last night, knowing the command was somewhere on the Dashboard, but just didn’t see it. I found the “comments off” checkbox for each page and turned them off. Thanks for the direction!

WK

Thanks, Tara! Just what I needed.

WK

Done — and it worked perfectly.

Thanks very much for this guidance!