Improvement for when comments are disabled for a post.

[ajtruckle]

Sometimes a post is designed and in the post you encourage readers to add comments.

After some months you might turn off commenting. But the post still says they can add comments.

It is impractical to make textual changes here. Instead it would be nicer if WordPress could add a note at the bottom indicating comments are disabled.

[knutsp]

The themes I use say "Comments are closed" or similar text instead of linking to the comment field.

This is theme dependent. WordPress core provides all necessary information for themes to indicate this properly.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi @ajtruckle, welcome to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the ticket.

As noted above, themes can already display a note if comments are disabled. There's a ​comments_open() function to check for that.

[ajtruckle]

Thank you for the clarification. I have directed this matter to the author of the theme I am using.