Comments can only be disabled site-wide
Site owners cannot disable comments for chosen post types, categories, or individual posts, or switch them off quickly from the editor.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
7 public reports · first reported 30 November 2017 · last reported 8 February 2026
What's going wrong
Many site owners want to turn comments off for some content but keep them on for other content.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 7 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.