Few months back, this blog was targeted by spammers and bot, submitting comments with spam links on every article. I grew tired of deleting those spam comments and decided to close the comment form.
Trying to close comment on each and every post will be time-consuming.
To automatically close comments on all published post, follow the steps below.
- Login to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Settings -> Discussion
- Under Other comment settings, tick Automatically close comments on articles older than and set the number of days to 1 or 0.
- If you have an active cache plugin like WP super cache, make sure you clear cache for the change to take effect.