Where Do You Configure Global Settings for Comments on Your WordPress Site?
The first step in configuring global comments settings on your WordPress site is to create a custom post type. To do this, open the Custom Post Types settings page in your WordPress admin area and click on the Add New Custom Post Type button.
In the Name field, type “Comments.” In the Taxonomies field, select the appropriate taxonomy for comments.
In the Slug field, type “comments.” Click on the Save button.
Now that we have created our custom post type, the next step is to configure the global comments settings for this post type. To do this, open the Comments settings page in your WordPress admin area and click on the edit link next to the Comments post type.
In the Comment settings page, you will want to configure the following settings:
1. Enable comments
2. Show comments by post
3. Show comments by category
4. Enable pingbacks
5. Enable trackbacks
6. Enable threaded comments
7. Enable WordPress comments
8. Enable Disqus comments
9. Enable Facebook comments
10. Enable Google+ comments
11. Enable Twitter comments
12. Enable LinkedIn comments
13. Enable Reddit comments
14. Enable StumbleUpon comments
15. Enable Delicious comments
16. Enable digg comments
17. Enable MySpace comments
18. Enable WebLogic comments
19. Enable Smackjeeves comments
20. Enable LiveJournal comments
21. Enable Skype comments
22. Enable XING comments
23. Enable YouTube comments
24. Enable Vimeo comments
25. Enable Instagram comments
26. Enable blogger comments
27. Enable del.
icio.us comments.
28. Enable Reddit votes
29. Enable Del.us votes.
30. Enable StumbleUpon votes
31. Enable Digg votes
32. Enable Technorati votes
33. Enable Mixi comments
34. Enable LiveJournal tags
35. Enable MySpace tags
36. Enable WebLogic tags
37. Enable Smackjeeves tags
38. Enable Delicious tags
39. Enable digg tags
40. Enable MySpace categories
41. Enable WebLogic categories
42. Enable Smackjeeves categories
43. Enable Delicious categories
44. Enable digg categories
45. Enable MySpace tags filters
46. Enable WebLogic tags filters
47. Enable Smackjeeves tags filters
48. Enable Delicious tags filters
49. Enable digg tags filters
50. Enable MySpace categories filters
51. Enable WebLogic categories filters
52. Enable Smackjeeves categories filters
53. Enable Delicious categories filters
54. Enable the comments per page setting to 100
55. Click on the Save button.
When you have finished configuring the comments settings for your post type, click on the Publish button to publish your post and apply these settings to all the comments submitted to this post type.
Finally, when you want to disable global comments for a post or category, you can do so by clicking on the Disable comments button next to the comments field in the post or category settings page, as shown in the screenshot below.
When you disable comments for a post or category, comments will no longer be displayed on this post or category. However, comments will still be displayed on any posts or categories that have comments enabled for this post or category.