[wp-hackers] Cannot stop comments from being posted

[Dwain Maralack]

There is actually a plugin that does this all for you:


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-comments/




Regards 
Dwain

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:02 PM, mccormicky <mccormicky at gmail.com="mailto:mccormicky at gmail.com">> wrote:
I'm sure you've tried this but ... settings > discussion > Automatically
close comments on articles older than 0 days?
are all these comments coming in on attachments/images? Since you can't
disable comments on attachment pages maybe edit the images theme file and
remove the comments form.

But I'm sure someone has a better idea.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Patty Ayers  wrote:

> If this isn't appropriate for this list, I apologize. I am just really
> stuck and hoped someone here could help.
>
> Why/how is this possible, and what can I do to resolve it? As of last
> night, there were zero comments. This morning, there are 11 new comments.
> In the Dashboard settings, comments have been completely disallowed for
> several days.
>
> -- For each and every post and page on this site, the checkbox (for the
> individual post or page) is UNchecked. I do this by going to the Quick Edit
> screen for that page or post - I don't know of any other way to access that
> option.
>
> -- In Settings > Discussion,  "Allow people to post comments on new posts"
> is UNchecked.
>
> The comments are all on Pages. I've looked at the Quick Edit screen for
> several of them, and see with my own two eyes that "Comments allowed" is
> (and has been, for at least several days) UNchecked. Yet a comment was left
> there in the past few hours.
>
> WordPress is up to date. A lot of plugins, but all up-to-date. The theme
> was from a reputable source (I believe) when when we installed it, but it
> hasn't been updated in a couple of years. Here's the site:
> http://ncdwell.com
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
> Patty
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