{"id":676,"date":"2012-12-14T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T10:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp\/?p=676"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:05:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T10:05:45","slug":"disabling-comments-for-individual-posts-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2012\/12\/disabling-comments-for-individual-posts-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling comments for individual posts in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

This had me stumped for a while, so I’m posting this for other, and to jog my memory if I forget.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure when it happened, but in more recent versions of WordPress the page\/post editing screen has been cleaned up by default to not include some of the (presumably lesser-used) options.<\/p>\n

The way to re-enable them is via the “Screen Options” menu in the top right-hand corner:<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

Once clicked, it opens a menu where you can toggle various aspects; Categories, Tags, Excerpt, Send Trackbacks, Custom Fields, Discussion<\/strong>, Comments, Slug and Author.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Discussion is the option you need to turn on to disable comments, as “Comments” only shows the existing comments. \u00a0Somewhat disconcertingly, I found that the Discussion section, when it appeared, was empty:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

However, if you click on the Discussion bar, it will expand and show you the check boxes for “Allow comments” and “Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page”.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a><\/p>\n

Not all that intuitive, I guess. But you may find similar features hidden in the “Screen Options” on other parts of the admin dashboard. Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This had me stumped for a while, so I’m posting this for other, and to jog my memory if I forget. I’m not sure when it happened, but in more recent versions of WordPress the page\/post editing screen has been cleaned up by default to not include some of the (presumably lesser-used) options. The way\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,45,148],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-admin","tag-comments","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9qMPF-aU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}