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<\/a>Adding “Comments Are Closing\u201d Message<\/h3>\n
Before we get started, we need to set comments to close. In WordPress go to Settings > Discussion and in the \u201cOther comment settings\u201d section, tick \u201cAutomatically close comments on articles older than\u201d and enter the number of days you want to keep comments open for.<\/p>\n WordPress has a handy built-in function \u2013 human_time_diff()<\/em> \u2013 for displaying relative time in a human-readable format, just like Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n For example, instead of your posts displaying, “Posted on January 23 at 10.30am,” you could display, \u201cPosted 5 hours ago.\u201d<\/p>\n We can take advantage of the human_time_diff()<\/em> function to display a human-readable time in our alert message.<\/p>\n To add \u201cComments on this post will automatically close in XX\u201d, just add the following snippet to your theme\u2019s functions.php file:<\/p>\n {code type=php} function topic_closes_in() {<\/a>
\nadd_action( ‘comment_form_top’, ‘topic_closes_in’ );<\/p>\n
\nglobal $post;
\nif ($post->comment_status == ‘open’) {
\n$close_comments_days_old = get_option( ‘close_comments_days_old’ );
\n$expires = strtotime( “{$post->post_date_gmt} GMT” ) + $close_comments_days_old * DAY_IN_SECONDS;
\nprintf( __( ‘(Comments on this post will automatically close in %s. )’, ‘domain’ ), human_time_diff( $expires ));
\n}
\n}<\/p>\n