Question

I know how to enable/disable comments on all pages. But how can I enable only a few, WITHOUT USING THE UI. In functions.php I just wanna go

if($this_is_a_page_i_want_comments_on) { enable_comments(); }

enable_comments(); doesn’t exist, this is the part I need help with.

I could do this using WordPress Admin by allowing comments on all pages, then going to each page and disabling comments where I don’t want them. This would take too long though.

P.S. I’m using Genesis framework.

Answer 1

Simply hook to the comments_open filter 🙂 If you look-up in the source how the comments_open() function works, you’ll notice that the function gets the post in question and then runs it’s reposnse through the comments_open filter. Here’s an example function to override that:

function my_override_comments_open( $open ) {
    if ( $this_is_a_page_i_want_comments_on ) {
        $open = true;
    }
    return $open;
}
add_filter('comments_open', 'my_override_comments_open', 1000);

I assume that you know how you’ll identify the pages that you want to enable comments on – so that’s up to you.

PP: I don’t know if it will work in Genesis or not(I presume that it should though).