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Opened 8 weeks ago

Closed 8 weeks ago

#63969 closed defect (bug) (worksforme)

Remove comments completely

Reported by: johan11989's profile johan11989 Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: minor Version:
Component: Comments Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Recently I discovered on my site ​xn--hgstrtp-90a.nu that there is comments coming in for approval even though I have disabled the comment section on the entire site. Is there any way to stop this from coming in?

Thanks in advance

Change History (1)

#1 @peterwilsoncc
8 weeks ago

  • Component changed from General to Comments
  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to worksforme
  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Version 6.8.1 deleted

@johan11989 This can happen if the display of comments has been removed without disabling the submission of comments on the Settings > Discussions page and in each post, page, etc.

Spammers don't use the form on each page to submit comments, they just post directly to the comment submission endpoint with random post IDs.

For your use case, I suggest you install the ​Turn Comments Off plugin, which will ensure they can't be submitted and hide the comment settings.

I've confirmed turning off comments prevents submission so I'll close this ticket as works for me.

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