Title: Auto Shutoff Comments Problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Auto Shutoff Comments Problem * [orchidred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orchidred/) * (@orchidred) * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-shutoff-comments-problem/) * I’m having trouble using the Auto Shutoff Comments plugin found [here.](http://wiki.wordpress.org/Auto%20shutoff%20comments) I installed it and everything seems to be working fine, except that I set the“ $age_cutoff” to 10 days and the plugin is shutting off comments at 6 days. When I originally installed the plugin I had set it to 6 days, but then decided that all the posts displayed on the front page should be open to comments. But even though I’ve changed the day number, the file is not reflecting that change. Any ideas why? I’ve tried deactivating, then re-activating the plugin to see if that helped, but it didn’t. 🙁 I’m pretty clueless with PHP so any help would be very much appreciated! – Kestrel Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * Thread Starter [orchidred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orchidred/) * (@orchidred) * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-shutoff-comments-problem/#post-108038) * Incidentally, even if I delete the plugin the comments are still closed after 6 days. What is going on? I’m so confused. * [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/) * (@carthik) * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-shutoff-comments-problem/#post-108043) * The plugin actually changes the status of the post, as to whether the post will accept comments or not. It probably set all posts older than 6 days to “comments closed”. Now when you changed the options and made it close posts older than 10 days, the plugin might not go and change the posts immediately, but from this point on, it will only mark ten day old posts… Contact the plugin author and let her/him know that the plugin should update the db tables so that the change you want to happen occurs as soon as you change the option. * Thread Starter [orchidred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orchidred/) * (@orchidred) * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-shutoff-comments-problem/#post-108065) * Ah thank you! That makes sense. 🙂 * [sourire75](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sourire75/) * (@sourire75) * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-shutoff-comments-problem/#post-108286) * I’m a very newbie with plugins and wordpress… and maybe some of you will laugh at my question, but nevermind the hundreds of “phentermine” comments on my blog are turning me crazy I’m trying to automatically shut off the comments on my blogs, so I found this “plugin” and I want to install it. But when it comes to plugins usually I download a file and install it, while here there is no file to download, only a few lines of code. And I really dont understand what to do with it ????? Is there no file to download and put in the wp-content/plugins folder ? Where am I supposed to put this code ???? I hope someone will help me * [lbessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lbessant/) * (@lbessant) * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auto-shutoff-comments-problem/#post-108305) * I’m using WpBlacklist to deal with the Phentermine idiot, but to answer your question, copy everything from the opening `