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Different dates for shutting off comments for different content

Howdy folks,

On CSS-Tricks I have comments on articles set to shut off after 2 months (or something like that). That is a global setting from the Admin area.

This also affects how long comments are open on Pages. For example, my screencasts use a special page template, which also includes templates. I am fine with closing comments on those after 2 months as well.

But then there are my "snippets", which use a different special page template. For THOSE, I'd like to leave comments open forever.

Anyone have a solution for that?

-Chris

Chris Coyier | 12/23/09 at 3:06pm | Edit

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Last edited:
12/29/09
6:18pm

Dan Davies says:

There was a hack pre-2.7 that enabled you to disable your comments after a certain amount of time had passed - so with a bit of editing it might help you:

<?php

function close_comments( $posts ) {

if ( !is_category('snippets') ) { return $posts; }

if ( time() - strtotime( $posts[0]->post_date_gmt ) > ( 60 * 24 * 60 * 60 ) ) {

$posts[0]->comment_status = 'closed';

$posts[0]->ping_status    = 'closed';

}

return $posts;

}

add_filter( 'the_posts', 'close_comments' );

?>