{"id":43,"date":"2012-10-09T09:44:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T09:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/help\/?p=43"},"modified":"2012-10-09T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T09:44:22","slug":"how-do-i-disable-comments-on-my-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/2012\/10\/09\/how-do-i-disable-comments-on-my-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I disable comments on my website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress &#8216;Comments&#8217; allow other people to leave messages regarding your articles typically blog posts, but also on individual pages. Unfortunately, comments provide an easy way for spam to enter your website, so if you are unsure it is\u00a0recommenced\u00a0you globally disable commenting on your website.<\/p>\n<p>To globally disable comments<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Login to your dashboard<\/li>\n<li>Go to Settings &gt;\u00a0Discussion<\/li>\n<li>UNTICK the 3rd option on this page (Allow people to comment on this article<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2012\/10\/comments_options.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44\" title=\"comments_options\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2012\/10\/comments_options-300x66.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2012\/10\/comments_options-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/217\/2012\/10\/comments_options.png 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scroll\u00a0to the bottom and click &#8216;Save\u00a0Changes&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please note you can override these settings on individual pages or articles if you wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress &#8216;Comments&#8217; allow other people to leave messages regarding your articles typically blog posts, but also on individual pages. Unfortunately, comments provide an easy way for spam to enter your website, so if you are unsure it is\u00a0recommenced\u00a0you globally disable commenting on your website. To globally disable comments Login to your dashboard Go to Settings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}