Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks

Overview:

Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts.

Features:

Can be configured via WP-Admin
Choose to run it automatically or manually

Installing

Download Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks.
Extract the contents of autoclose.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called autoclose.
Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.
Goto Options > Auto-Close to configure.

Options:

The below screenshot shows the options. You can customize if you want to close comments and/or pingbacks & trackbacks. You can also choose to run it manually or setup a schedule.

By default, all options are disabled.

ChangeLog:

1.1 - Added option to keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks on certain posts open
1.0 - Release

To Do:

Keep posts open by category.
Keep pages open.

Downloads

Current Version is 1.1

Download Auto-Close v1.1

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License

All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Questions or Bugs

Known Bugs

If you have any questions or would like to report any bugs then please use the support forum.

Download Auto-Close v1.1

13 Total Responses to “ Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks ”

Comments:

nimue says:
September 9th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I am waiting for the Ability to keep certain posts open, because my guestbook works with comments , and i did not found any solution yet.
kamal says:
September 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Great plugin, it save time to do custom template…
as Nimue, if there any ability to check the post we want to close, it will be more amazing and perfect.
Thanks for all.
Navjot Singh says:
September 17th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Cool Plugin by you there. But there should be option of excluding specific posts too. Also exclusion by category should also be there. Hope you implement it.

And there should be a unclose comments option too.

Pls consider these as future version feature requests.

Regards
Navjot Singh
Ajay says:
September 17th, 2008 at 12:28 am
I’ll be putting in the exclusion feature. My plan is to use that for unclose as well.
Ajay says:
September 18th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I’ve updated the plugin.

v1.1 now has the ability to keep certain posts open
Halina says:
September 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I’m in the process of creating 3 new blogs and closing 3 old ones, 400+ posts or so all together. Your plugin made it so easy to prevent future comments/pingbacks/trackbacks with a few clicks, while retaining the content as such for those who want to read it.

Thanks a lot!
Joe Hayes says:
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:38 am
I use this, and love it. Thanks.