How to Disable Comments on Posts Over One Month

Are you looking for a way to disable comments on posts older than one month? While there’s probably a plugin for this, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to disable comments on posts over one month in WordPress.

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

<?php
		function close_comments( $posts ) {
 
			if ( !is_single() ) { return $posts; }
 
			if ( time() - strtotime( $posts[0]->post_date_gmt ) > ( 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 ) ) {
			$posts[0]->comment_status = 'closed';
			$posts[0]->ping_status    = 'closed';
			}
 
		return $posts;
		}
		add_filter( 'the_posts', 'close_comments' );
		?>

Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly add code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.

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