AutoClose is a WordPress plugin that lets you automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your posts. You can also bulk-open or close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks.
You can also delete all post revisions, pingbacks and trackbacks using the buttons in the Tools interface.
Features:
- Set up a schedule to automatically close comments, pingbacks/trackbacks on posts, pages and other custom post types
- Select a custom time period to limit these to posts published before a certain date
- Access the tools page for buttons that allow you to open or close comments and/or pingbacks
- Delete all post revisions
- Delete all pingbacks and trackbacks
Requirements:
- WordPress 4.5 or above
Installing
WordPress install
- Navigate to Plugins within your WordPress Admin Area
- Click “Add new” and in the search box enter “autoclose”
- Find the plugin in the list (usually the first result) and click “Install Now”
Manual install
- Download the plugin
- 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 Settings » Auto-Close to configure
Screenshots
The below screenshots show the General options and the Tools page.
AutoClose v2.0.0 settings 
AutoClose v2.0.0 Tools
Changelog
Details on the Github releases page.
License
All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Questions or Bugs
Please use the support forum if you have any questions or would like to report any bugs.
Downloads
Download Auto-Close
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Last updated: March 16, 2019
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nimue
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
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
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
I’ll be putting in the exclusion feature. My plan is to use that for unclose as well.
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Ajay
I’ve updated the plugin.
v1.1 now has the ability to keep certain posts open
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Halina
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
I use this, and love it. Thanks.
aLee
Heyy.. that’s really helpful in fighting spammers!
Thanks a lot for that.
Hugh Hinton
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.