How to disable commenting on a Wordpress site

The purpose of this post is to highlight the necessary steps to disable commenting on an existing WordPress site.

1. Disable commenting on the entire site:
   1. Go to the WordPress Admin Dashboard > Settings > Discussion
   2. Uncheck all options under Default Article Setting
   3. Click on Save at the bottom of the page
   4. IMPORTANT: This is only going to disable commenting for any pages/posts created from now on.
   5. See screenshot for reference (based on WordPress version 4.9.5):
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2. Disable commenting on already existing pages/posts:
   1. Please note that depending on what features your theme offers you will have to go through these steps for Blog Posts, Pages, maybe even Portfolio and potentially entries for other site features.
   2. Let’s use Blog Posts as an example
      1. Select WordPress Admin Dashboard > Blog Posts > All Posts to view a list of all available Blog Posts
      2. Select existing posts you would like to disable commenting on. You can select specific ones or all.
      3. Select Edit from the Bulk Actions dropdown, then click Apply => this will take you to a different view. In that view in the box under Bulk Edit you can verify the list of posts that you selected.
      4. Select Do Not Allow from the Comments dropdown
      5. Click Update
   3. See screenshots for reference (based on WordPress version 4.9.5):
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3. Disable Comments on a single Page, Blog Post, etc.:
   1. Let’s use Blog Posts as example:
      1. Select the Blog Post for which you want to update the commenting settings, then go ahead and select Edit
      2. Select Screen Options in the top right corner of the Blog Post Editor page
      3. Check the Discussion and Comments checkboxes
      4. Scroll down in the Blog Post Editor page until you see the Discussion and Comments sections
      5. Make sure to uncheck all options
      6. Click on Update to save the updated Blog Post settings
      7. See screenshots for reference (based on WordPress version 4.9.5):
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