In the version 0.9.1 it is not yet possible to do it on a 'per blog basis'.
In the next release (the alpha version is allready downloadeble), it will be possible

I'm assuming you're the only one having access to post and didn't want the hassle of disabling the comments each time.

By default, it's set to 'open'. You can set the default to 'Disabled'. Look in admin/b2edit.php for this:

param( 'post_comments', 'string', 'open' );

and change the value to:

param( 'post_comments', 'string', 'disabled' );

Hello, I also want to disable my comments but have not been able to do this. I like the comments but the spam has gotten out of control so I just don't want to deal with it anymore. I've tried to edit my b2edit.php file in the admin directory as follows

param( 'post_comments', 'string', 'closed );

and tried...

param( 'post_comments', 'string', 'disabled' );

I verified the change did go through but still in both cases the comments are showing up and visitors or should I say bots are still able to leave buy viagra comments etc. Is there something else I need to do to make my blog read only and get rid of the comments?

PS: I'm using b2evolution version 0.9.0.10

Thanks in advance for any help.

I can't remember about the features in version 0.9.0.10. In alpha version, you have these options for comments:-

1. Always on all posts (Always allow comments on every posts)
2. Can be disabled on a per post basis (Comments can be disabled on each post separatly)
3. No comments are allowed in this blog (Never allow any comments in this blog)

These are set at blog level; Blogs --> blogname --> advanced tab.

snowbordnbum wrote:

PS: I'm using b2evolution version 0.9.0.10

For what it is worth : upgrade to 0.9.1 !
Your server will be greatfully thankfull to you.

Unforuntately in my version there is no option for the commenting settings under blogs-blogname-advanced. I was hoping to avoid the upgrade but I guess I have to do it sooner or later anyway so I'll try that. There are a few other quirks that the upgrade will probably fix anyway. Thank you for the suggestions.

You can delete the table that holds the comments in your data base. That will delete all existing comments and prevent new ones. I've done that on one of our sites and didn't see any problems.