Close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on WordPress posts automatically
February 3rd, 2009 | View Comments
This is a plugin called Autoclose developed by Ajay D’Souza which manages 3 things in your wordpress posts, which are -
1. Comments
2. Pingbacks
3. Trackbacks
Here is what you can do with Autoclose plugin -
- Closes comments on posts or pages that are a particular number of days old.
- Closes the incoming pingbacks/trackbacks to the blog posts.
- Closes pingbacks/trackbacks on blog posts or pages which are particular number of days old.
- You can choose to leave a few posts allowing the comments/pingbacks/trackbacks.
- Option to delete the post revisions.
- Delete the comments, separate from trackbacks/pingbacks.
How to install the plugin?
1. Download Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks.
2. Extract the contents of autoclose.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get a folder called autoclose.
3. Activate the Plugin in WP-Admin.
4. Goto Options > Auto-Close to configure.
You can download AutoClose wordpress plugin from Ajaydsouza.com


February 4th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Why that could be necessary?