[wp-hackers] Trackbacks/Pingbacks/etc. Settings

[Jeremy Clarke]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nathan Rice <ncrice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Quick question ... if a site has trackbacks turned off in the Discussion
> settings, but an individual post/page has the "allow trackbacks/pingbacks"
> setting checked, which setting takes precedence? Also, what is the opposite
> is true? Trackbacks are enabled in Discussion settings, but off for a
> single
> post/page?
>
>
AFAIK the global settings only affect the default values on new content. All
existing content retains its previous values. There are plugins out there to
mass-disable discussion settings on old content.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=close+comments

You could probably have found the answer to this on the forums ;)

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