Diperbarui 30 Agustus 2010 oleh Dani Iswara
Blog posting with closed comment is difficult to identified. Not usable in my mind. Check WordPress dashboard. Discussion setting is available in example.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
. There are some options to disallow comments.
- In menu "Default article settings", uncheck
Allow people to post comments on new articles
. Users may see some texts in post meta data and comment section thatcomment is closed at the time
. Or changecomments.php
file properly. ButAllow comments
option in individual posting may change this default preferences. - In menu "Other comment settings", there is an option to
Automatically close comments on articles older than [numeric] days
. By default, in the blog post, no text mentioning that comment is already closed. Not usable, I think.
On this unessential weblog, all comments are already closed for sure using both of those methods. Then I chose to modify comments.php
file to make it more usable. Before the line
<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
I put these markups
<p class="nocomment"><em>Sorry, all responses are closed at this time. You may <a href="https://daniiswara.com/contact/">contact me</a> if needed.</em></p>
And change post meta data to inform that comments are closed. So you don’t have to scroll down, waste your time, and find no more comment form available.
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