WordPress Tip: Disable Comments in Old Posts via PHP
Just a quick WordPress snippet for future reference. I recently explained how to disable comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks via SQL. Here’s a good way to do it via PHP:
<?php
function close_comments( $posts ) {
if ( !is_single() ) { return $posts; }
if ( time() - strtotime( $posts[0]->post_date_gmt ) > ( 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 ) ) {
$posts[0]->comment_status = 'closed';
$posts[0]->ping_status = 'closed';
}
return $posts;
}
add_filter( 'the_posts', 'close_comments' );
?>You can run this script as a plugin, through your theme’s functions.php, or through a custom user-functions.php file. Simply set the desired number of days by changing the number “30” to whatever you would like. As is, this script will close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on all articles posted more than 30 days ago.
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This is article #578, posted by Jeff Starr on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 @ 07:43am. Categorized as WordPress, and tagged with comments, php, pingbacks, posts, sql, tips, trackbacks, tricks, WordPress. Updated on . Visited 5449 times. 4 Responses »
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1 • July 8, 2008 at 5:22 pm — Nikhil G. says:
Hi perishable..
:D when i came at your site, for Apathy theme. It was quite absurd to see the blank page returned when you try to publish a comment.
So, is there a way to use this script and if comments are closed for that particular post, then a “NO COMMENTS ON OLD POST” message or something like that is displayed. ??
It become quite confusing else.
Thanks,
Nikhil G.