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Individual Page and Post Comment Settings

Each page and post has comment settings you can adjust. Individual page / post comment settings can be modified at any time.

If you modified the site-wide comment settings, you can use individual page / post comment settings to adjust items created previously to match the current site-wide settings. You can also use the individual page / post comment settings to override your site-wide settings.

Caution

Turning off comments for individual pages and posts does not delete current comments, but turns off the ability for future comments. See the Unapprove or Remove Comments guide for information about removing comments.

You can adjust individual comment settings from two areas: from Quick Edit options or the Edit Page / Edit Post page. The Quick Edit option is useful if you have already created the post and would like to update it. The Edit Page / Edit Post page is particularly useful if you are in the middle of creating the post.

Quick Edit

  1. Login to u.osu.edu and navigate to the dashboard of the site that you would like to edit.
  2. Navigate to the All Pages or All Posts page.
  3. Hover over the page / post you want to edit.
  4. Click Quick Edit from the displayed menu.
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    Quick Edit link under page title on Pages screen
  5. (Un)check Allow Comments from the Quick Edit options.
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    Allow Comments checkbox under Quick Edits heading on Pages screen
  6. Click Update.

The Edit Page / Edit Post page

  1. Login to u.osu.edu and navigate to the dashboard of the site that you would like to edit.
  2. Navigate to the Post / Page for which you would like to override your settings.
  3. In the upper-right corner, click Screen Options.
  4. If not already checked, check Discussions. When Discussions is checked, you will see an options to Allow Comments below the Post / Page text box.
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    Discussion checkbox in Screen Options box at the top of the page
  5. (Un)check Allow Comments.
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    Allow Comments checkbox under Discussion heading on Edit Page screen
  6. Click Publish / Update / Schedule.