Make sure Word Press comments option are closed PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 29 October 2007

If you had comments option opened in your Word Press blog, spam engines will find them and will try to post comments. If you disable comment option, the old posts will still be opened for spam.

In order to disable commenst for all posts in the database run the following MySQl query in MySQL admin for the Word Press database: 

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET comment_status ='closed'

Even though if you have an antispam plugin installed such as Akismet, you still better to disable comment option completely in order to preserve server resources and bandwidth.