Seth Alling

Up until recently, WordPress gave two options: You could either disable comments and trackbacks by default for all pages and posts, or you could have them active by default. In WordPress version 4.3, this finally changed so comments are always disabled on new pages.
While the new change makes it easier for many of the sites, it make it harder for people who need to get the reverse and enable comments on all pages, or if they need to change the default for a custom post type. This plugin allows you to choose whether comments are enabled or disabled by default on all new posts, pages and custom post types, while still giving the ability to individually enable comments on posts or pages.
Also, this plugin provides a way to quickly disable all comments or pingbacks for a specific custom post type. It directly interacts with your database to modify the status, so it is highly recommended that you backup your database first. There shouldn’t be any issues using this feature, but it’s always good to play it safe.
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No Page Comment

An admin interface to control the default comment and trackback settings on new posts, pages and custom post types.

itthinx

Decent Comments shows what people say.
If you want to show comments along with their author’s avatars and an excerpt of their comment, then this is the right plugin for you.
And it’s not limited to just a widget showing recent comments: The plugin provides configurable widgets, shortcodes and an API to display comments in sensible ways, including author avatars, links, comment excerpts …
Anywhere you place comments, by means of a widget, a shortcode or an API call, you can:
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<li>Show an excerpt or the full comment. You can choose to not show the comment as well.</li>
<li>Determine the number of words shown for excerpts.</li>
<li>Set your kind of ellipsis.</li>
<li>Set the number of comments to show.</li>
<li>Show the author’s avatar and determine its size.</li>
<li>Sort by author email, author URL, content (what’s said in the comment), date, karma or post … in ascending or descending order.</li>
<li>Show comments for the current post or for a specific post.</li>
<li>Show comments for a specific post type.</li>
<li>Show comments for posts in specific categories, for specific tags, … (more precisely: the ability to show comments from posts related to one or more terms in a chosen taxonomy).</li>
<li>Show comments for a set of posts and/or excluding a set of posts.</li>
<li>and more to come … got suggestions?</li>
</ul>
Feedback is welcome! 
If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/decent-comments" rel="nofollow ugc">Decent Comments plugin page</a>.
Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Thanks!
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Translations
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<li>Catalan translation provided by <a href="https://www.ibidemgroup.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ibidem Group</a></li>
<li>Chinese translation provided by Francesco from <a href="https://www.in-cina.com" rel="nofollow ugc">in Cina</a></li>
<li>French translation provided by Thomas Mur from <a href="https://www.creapage.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Creapage.net</a></li>
<li>German translation provided by the author <a href="https://www.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">itthinx</a></li>
<li>Italian translation provided by Francesco from <a href="https://www.in-cina.com" rel="nofollow ugc">in Cina</a></li>
<li>Lithuanian translation provided by Vincent G from <a href="https://www.Host1Free.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Host1Free</a></li>
<li>Portuguese translation provided by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/topcasinowagering" rel="ugc">TopCasinoWagering</a></li>
<li>Russion translation provided by <a href="https://arahis.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Igor</a></li>
<li>Spanish translation provided by <a href="https://www.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">itthinx</a> and <a href="https://www.ibidem-translations.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ibidem Translations</a></li>
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Many thanks!

Decent Comments

Thank you

Decent Comments shows what people say. Provides widgets, shortcodes and API to display comments including author avatars, links, comment excerpts.

No Page Comment vs Decent Comments