Comments off by default, even on posts

[discobot]

You can see why this is necessary by doing a search for the default post text + any common spam comment words you like.

Comments are lovely, but unless there is some spam protection by default, they should not be enabled by default.

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Read-only archive: https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/108/comments-off-by-default-even-on-posts

Author: Ian

Vote count: 15

Status: duplicate

~ posted by Wade Striebel

Tags:

• request-modify-feature
• difficulty-easy

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Comments

Allow comments to be enabled on posts but not on pages.

~ posted by Svetoslav Marinov

For pages, yes please.

~ posted by Mike Schinkel

EZ
update_option( ‘default_ping_status’, ‘closed’ );
update_option( ‘default_pingback_flag’, 0 );
update_option( ‘default_comment_status’, ‘closed’ );
update_option( ‘comment_registration’, 1 );
update_option( ‘comment_moderation’, 1 );

~ posted by Nodws

related: https://petitions.classicpress.net/posts/35/change-basic-settings-of-comment-options

~ posted by Pieter Bos

Marking this as a duplicate as mentioned by Pieter.

~ posted by Wade Striebel

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Here’s the new link to duplicate petition: Change basic settings of comment options