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How to turn off comments for a single post on WordPress

July 21, 2013 By Nwosu Desmond 37 Comments

By default comment are enabled on WordPress and can be disabled from the settings on dashboard (Settings > Discussion) if need be. But you cannot turn off comments for a single post on WordPress from same place. I have been in some forums where people asked how to turn off comments for a single post on WordPress and can’t seem to get a reasonable answer. Recently a blogger friend asked me same question and I thought it nice to share the answer I gave to him with you so you can also turn of comment for a single post on WordPress any time you want to.

To turn off comments for a single post on WordPress, you will need an administrative privilege for such site. So you must be logged in as an administrator on that site to be able to turn off comments for a single post on WordPress. So I am going to teach you in a quick tutorial how to turn off comments on a single post on WordPress.

How to turn off comments for a single post on WordPress

How to turn off comments on a single post on WordPress:

Login to your WordPress dashboard with your administrator account.

Go to Posts > All Posts and navigate to the post you will want to turn off comments for. Click on “Edit” to open the post.

Look at the top of the page you will see a grey tab called “Screen Options” and click on it to reveal a slide down menu.

Check “Discussion” as highlighted on the image below and click on the Screen options again to hide the menu.

How to turn off comments for a single post on WordPress

Then a discussion pane will be added to every edit post so you can choose to turn on/off comments on individual posts.

How to turn off comments for a single post on WordPress

So to turn off comments on a single post on WordPress un-check the “Allow comments” on the discussion pane.

You can also use same method to turn on/off trackback and pingbacks on a single post on WordPress.

I hope you find this tutorial useful and easy to apply. If you have any questions or contributions use the comment section below.

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Comments

  1. Sriram says

    July 21, 2013 at 9:02 am

    Simple but useful post. Sometimes, we don’t want to get comments. Thanks for the share.

  2. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 21, 2013 at 9:12 am

    Thanks Sriram for your comment, yes sometimes we do not need comments on a post or we may have received so much comment on a post that we want to stop receiving more because so much comments slows down a page.

  3. narda says

    July 21, 2013 at 10:30 am

    I did not know that turning off comments on WorPress is an easy task. Thanks a lot for your great and simple tips. :)

  4. Abrar Tariq says

    July 21, 2013 at 11:55 am

    Awesome tip. I have many posts, specially reviews where i don’t want comments, that’s just to increase conversations and all the time i am manually deleting the comments. this will help me a lot, and also benefit me a lot :)

  5. Ankit Kumar Singla says

    July 21, 2013 at 12:59 pm

    Hey Great tutorial man!
    Recently I migrate my blog from Blogger to WordPress and this guide will definitely help me :D
    Thanks for this informative article.

  6. Akshat Bhanchawat says

    July 21, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    I have never seen this before. Thanks for sharing this trick!

  7. Nirmala says

    July 21, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    Cool information :)

    Will execute it, whenever needed.

    Thanks for the clear explanation to turn off the commmnets for a particular post in WP, keep sharing the stuffs.

  8. Suresh Khanal says

    July 21, 2013 at 3:44 pm

    Short and useful post. Sometimes we may need to disable the comments for a particular post – probably an affiliate post ( :D )

    The ‘show on screen’ filter lets you to turn off many of the elements of Post Editing screen but the problem faced when you forgot to open the list to see which of the elements are turned off! Good reminder.

  9. Ryan Biddulph says

    July 21, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    Simple post and like Sri said, useful too.

    Sometimes no comments are needed. Make a point so readers can soak it up.

    Some business-themed posts might warrant this strategy.

    Thanks for sharing Nwosu!

    Ryan

  10. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 21, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    I am glad you found it useful, thanks for your comment and visit again.

  11. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 21, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    Glad you have seen it now, you can then close comment for single posts on WordPress using the guide in this tutorial.

  12. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 21, 2013 at 8:02 pm

    Thanks for your wonderful comment, i hope you can easily turn off comments for a single post on WordPress now.

  13. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 21, 2013 at 8:05 pm

    Thanks Suresh for your comment.

  14. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 21, 2013 at 8:06 pm

    Thanks Ryan for your contribution.

  15. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 21, 2013 at 8:07 pm

    Thanks Narda for your wonderful contribution.

  16. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 21, 2013 at 8:07 pm

    Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment.

  17. Mosam Gor says

    July 22, 2013 at 3:09 am

    Hello Nwosu,

    Great share.!

    thanks for sharing this informative post and useful post too. sometimes we don’t need any comment from the post. btw.!

    stay updated and stay rocking ;) :P

    -Mosam

  18. marilyn cada says

    July 22, 2013 at 3:42 am

    thanks for sharing it nwosu. i also use the same technique if i do not want to receive trackbacks and pingbacks. :)

  19. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 22, 2013 at 8:49 am

    Thanks Mosam for your comment, do have a nice day.

  20. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 22, 2013 at 8:49 am

    Thanks Marilyn for your comment.

  21. Pawan says

    July 22, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    Quick tip to turn off the comments buddy. I don’t turn off the comments since they are whole and sole of my blog. I wouldn’t rally turn them ever as it would be injustice to my readers.

  22. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 22, 2013 at 9:23 pm

    There are some posts you do not need comments on and this guide will help you to turn off comments on such posts.

  23. Martin says

    July 23, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    Another good way to do it would be to dupe the page.php file and strip out the call to the comments.php template. And when you want a page where you know you don’t want comments, choose that page template instead.

  24. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 23, 2013 at 5:28 pm

    Won’t that be a complicated process? I think this process is easier and safer.

  25. Ti Roberts says

    July 24, 2013 at 7:55 pm

    Very resourceful post, Nwosu. I’d always wondered how bloggers were able to turn off comments on an individual post. Now I know!

    Thanks for sharing this tutorial with us. :)

    Ti

  26. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 24, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    I am glad to see you here, thanks for your comment, glad you found it interesting.

  27. Thaha says

    July 27, 2013 at 6:47 am

    Well i have been looking for this bcoz I’m just receiving the comments for my too old post but they were not genuine comments between thanks for the share bro

  28. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    July 27, 2013 at 9:28 am

    I am glad you found the post useful, and thanks for commenting.

  29. Adesanmi Adedotun says

    August 10, 2013 at 1:34 pm

    Hi Nwosu,

    Thanks for sharing this tips and this will be so helpful for me when I move my to wordpress platform.

  30. prem chandra says

    August 14, 2013 at 5:11 am

    Thanks a lot for giving this details regarding blogs commenting with word press. this would be very helpful for people.
    i appreciate your effort do this work.

  31. Sankar says

    November 17, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    Good Searching it for long days you saved my time.! Great tip

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    December 19, 2015 at 8:09 am

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    February 2, 2016 at 12:37 am

    Thank you for sharing this tips with us keep updating like this, :)

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  35. Rohit Roy says

    March 10, 2016 at 11:37 am

    Its simple yet useful post. Keep updating.

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    May 11, 2016 at 6:34 am

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  37. Birthday Boy says

    November 24, 2016 at 12:44 pm

    The way you wrote this article defines how skillful and how helpful you are

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