Comments on: Exclude A Category From Turn Off Comments Automatically

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:55:36 +0000

Hey, this looks great and should do exactly what I need it to. One question though, whenever I place it in my 'functions.php' I get a parse error...?

Is there somewhere in particular where I should be placing it?

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:03:39 +0000

I'm trying to get this to work for allowing comments permanently on two categories, and not having success. I'm confused on where you sub the $cat value - is it in the array definition or down in the add_filter function? Either way, comments stay off. How can I best troubleshoot this?

By: phocean

phocean — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:44:15 +0000

Hi,

I copied the code above in functions.php of my them, created a new template and affected it to the page where I want the comment to stay open.
Of course I updated the template name inside the function call.

But it does not work. Any suggestion please ? Is there any change that my theme ignore functions.php ?

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By: ahmad

ahmad — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:35:39 +0000

Hi,

I loved the post very much.
I have a small blog and what I want is to allow comments Meta Tag on some categories and totally make the comments link or the comments box invisible in some categories.

Say I have 4 categories Google, Microsoft , yahoo, and Amazon. what I want is to remove comments box and link fully for category google & keep it visible for yahoo and others.

Looking for your help

Kind Regards,
Ahmad

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:58:18 +0000

Yep that did the trick. I think it was pulling in that

global $wp_query;

that got the get_post_meta working.

Excellent work guys, thanks!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:12:44 +0000

Here is the final working code for Chris Coyier's solution:


function wpe_close_comments_for_old_post( $open, $post_id, $template = 'page-snippet.php', $days_old = '' ) {
	global $wp_query;
	
	if( !$post_id )
		$post_id = $wp_query->post->ID;
 
	if ( get_post_meta($post_id, '_wp_page_template', true) == $template && get_option('close_comments_for_old_posts') ) {
		return !$open;
	}
	
	if ( !$open )
		return $open;
 
	if ( '' === $days_old )
		$days_old = (int) get_option('close_comments_days_old');
 
	if ( !$days_old )
		return $open;
 
	$post = get_post($post_id);
 
	if ( (time() - strtotime( $post->post_date_gmt )) > ( $days_old * 24 * 60 * 60 ) )
		return false;
 
	return $open;
}
add_filter( 'comments_open', 'wpe_close_comments_for_old_post', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'pings_open',    'wpe_close_comments_for_old_post', 10, 2 );

Thanks to Alphawolf for the final idea!

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:56:55 +0000

As a test, I made the function just "return true;", and indeed that did activate comments on all older content, so at least we can be sure the functions.php file is working and the filter is being applied properly. My theory is that the is_page_template and get_post_meta functions dont run properly in this context?

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:25:02 +0000

I gave it a shot but it's a no-go. Thanks for all the work on this though guys. I'm sure it works great for categories =) It probably isn't destined to be for me.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:27:05 +0000

Chris: Alphawolf and me working hard :p
if ( get_post_meta($post_id, '_wp_page_template', true) == $template ) return open;