Automatically Close Comments After Certain Time Has Passed

[taufik-nurrohman]

Say, you want to close the comment form after 30 days have passed. Automatically!

You get the formula:

$a_month_has_passed = strtotime($the_date) < strtotime('-30 days');

Then you can use it to set dynamic comment status globally, where variable $the_date holds the publication time of the page. Use it like this in your layout file:

<?php $a_month_has_passed = strtotime((string) $page->time) < strtotime('-30 days'); ?>
<article>
  …
</article>
<?= self::comments([$a_month_has_passed ? 2 : 1]); ?>

Numbers 1 and 2 are status flags of the comments section which you can learn more about here.