Activate and Disable Comments on WordPress

Turn comments on and off in WordPress

WordPress is a very complex CMS that allows you to customize your website and its pages in many different ways.
 
If you have a personal blog or publish news/updates on your website, you will likely want to enable comments on that page.
 
In this guide, we show how to access the WordPress comment settings and how to enable or disable them for a specific page.
 
First, go to the left-hand menu of your WordPress administrator panel, navigate to "Settings" and enter the "Discussion" section as shown in the following image:
 
 
Here you will access your WordPress comment settings. The checkboxes shown in the image correspond to different functions:
  1. Allow people to submit comments on new posts: When this option is enabled, comments are allowed on all pages (each page can still be customized individually afterward).
  2. Comment author must fill out name and email: This requires visitors who want to leave a comment to enter a name and an email address.
  3. Users must be registered and logged in to comment: If you want only registered users to be able to comment on the page, you must enable this option.

How to enable/disable comments on a specific page
 
As mentioned in the previous section, you can configure comments for a specific WordPress page so that the settings apply only to that page and not to the rest.
 
To do this, simply edit the page and then go to the right-hand section of the window and scroll down to the last available option:
 
 
By default, it will appear enabled. However, if you want to disable it, simply uncheck both options and click "Update" to apply the changes.

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