Wordpress - Disable comment windows for all existing posts (pages/blogposts)
Here is an untested suggestion for wp-cli approach:
We can list post IDs of published posts with open comment status with:
wp post list --post-status=publish --post_type=post comment_status=open --format=ids
and update a post to a closed comment status with:
wp post update 123 --comment_status=closed
where 123 is a post id.
We can then combine those two into:
wp post list --post-status=publish --post_type=post comment_status=open --format=ids \
| xargs -d ' ' -I % wp post update % --comment_status=closed
or
for post_id in $(wp post list --post_status=publish \
--post_type=post --comment_status=open --format=ids); \
do wp post update $post_id --comment_status=closed; done;
Then there's the ping_status
as well to consider.
There are other ways than wp-cli but please remember to take backup before testing.