Limit commenting to certain posts?

Memberships & subscriptions
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Considering flipping on the Ghost comment feature for registered users and wondering about options/best practice for limiting commenting to certain pages/posts? I want to test it out in a limited way first.

I suspect this can be done by filtering with an internal tag? Though that means adding that tag on every existing post, yes?

Also curious if adding an internal tag like #no-comments after-the-fact would remove display of the comment section entirely, including previous comments, e.g. to hide an existing comment thread for moderation/other purposes.

Finally, is there an option to disable comments on a post at a certain point if the discussion gets out of hand? (Not that that’s ever happened in the history of the Internet, but it’s worth being prepared…)

Appreciate any general thoughts/tips for managing comments for members more generally, too.

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The behavior of the api endpoint is only controlled by the one slider, but you can use some css to hide the comments section on selected posts. Depending on the theme, code injection and adding a tag might be enough. It won’t remove comments, but it’ll make them non-visible to other site visitors.

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Has an option to enable/disable-by-post ever been in the mix? That would be a nice little feature in the post/page settings.

Many news sites choose to not have comments on some types of articles.

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You can limit commenting on specific posts by using internal tags like #no-comments. However, you’ll need to add them manually. While you can hide comment sections later, there’s no built-in option to disable comments based on time.