“Comments Are Closed” Problem in WordPress

Sometimes we are facing a major problem to have COMMENTS ARE CLOSED in WordPress site and there are several causes to happen this issue. If you find the solution in web many experts will deliver different types of method to get rid of. And most of them will ask you to run a SQL query.

And really this solution works :

//sql query
UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = REPLACE (comment_status, 'closed', 'open') WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post';

OR

//sql query
UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = 'open', ping_status = 'open' WHERE comment_status = 'closed' AND post_status = 'publish';

But, it will be funny if you are really don’t know how to run SQL query OR if you don’t have permission to access your database. Then how ?? Yes, here i got a solution to post a function in your functions.php file which will solve your problem.

Just paste the below code in functions.php file.

//enable comments for all posts
add_action('init', 'enable_comments_for_all_posts');
function enable_comments_for_all_posts(){
    global $wpdb;
    $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET comment_status = 'open'", "")); // Enable comments
    $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare("UPDATE $wpdb->posts SET ping_status = 'open'", "")); // Enable trackbacks
}

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Mehedi Hasan

Cool WordPress Developer having much agile experience to develop any kind of WordPress sites & plugins. Also good in troubleshooting, fixing & making any kind of tweaks for WP site.

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