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
- Delete comments separately from pingbacks and trackbacks
- Choose to leave comments and/or pingbacks & trackbacks open on certain posts
- Delete post revisions
Requirements:
- WordPress 1.5 or above
Installing
- Download Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks.
- Extract the contents of
autoclose.ziptowp-content/plugins/folder. You should get a folder calledautoclose. - 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:
- 1.3.1 – Now separately choose to close on posts and pages. Also added buttons to open all comments and open all pings
- 1.2 – Added option to delete post revisions. Minor bug fix. Includes plugin uninstaller.
- 1.1 – Added option to keep comments / pingbacks / trackbacks on certain posts open
- 1.0 – Release
To Do:
- Keep posts open by category
Downloads
Current Version is 1.3.1
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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.
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.
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.
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
I’ll be putting in the exclusion feature. My plan is to use that for unclose as well.
I’ve updated the plugin.
v1.1 now has the ability to keep certain posts open
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!
I use this, and love it. Thanks.
Heyy.. that’s really helpful in fighting spammers!
Thanks a lot for that.
This solution is good for news-type blogs because news is history in a couple of days, but for niche blogs the plugin should offer a possibility to leave comments open for separate posts.