{"id":4234,"date":"2015-06-24T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T23:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2015-06-24T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T23:17:37","slug":"how-wordpress-re-enable-comments-after-using-disable-comments-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/how-wordpress-re-enable-comments-after-using-disable-comments-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"[HOW] WordPress: Re-enable Comment Form After Using Disable Comments Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/disable-comments\/\"><strong>Disable Comments<\/strong><\/a> WordPress plugin for some of my websites. It works great in disabling and hiding the comment sections in posts and pages. However, I decided to re-enable the comments and the comment form didn&#8217;t show up anymore. I tried disabling and deleting the plugin and made sure everything was on in the Discussion section was enabled, but without nothing worked. Took me ages until I found a solution on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/how-to-re-enable-comments-after-using-persistent-mode\">plugin support forum<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To fix the comment form in the posts and pages:<br \/>\n&#8211; From the Posts Screen, check the boxes next to all the posts you want to edit, select Bulk Actions -> Edit, and click Apply.<br \/>\n&#8211; In the bulk edit area that appears, check the box for comment status and click Update.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allow-comments.png\" alt=\"allow-comments\" width=\"750\" height=\"252\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allow-comments.png 750w, https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allow-comments-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Disable Comments WordPress plugin for some of my websites. It works great in disabling and hiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,1079,255,2301],"tags":[784,785,1315,1447,1563,1619,2413,2414,2415,2416,2417,2418],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-how-to-fix-stuff","category-technology","category-ux-ui","tag-wordpress","tag-plugin","tag-form","tag-box","tag-how","tag-fix","tag-wp","tag-comment","tag-comments","tag-disable","tag-enable","tag-reenable"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WP-disable-comments.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtRf-16i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}