For each blog entry, in the Behaviours tab, there is a tickbox defaulting to 'allow comments.'

Where can I change the default?

Does anyone know?

TIA

In BlogEntry.php at the top it is set in the $defaults array(). Look for something like

static $defaults = array(
'AllowComments'....

Set that to 0 / false to disable the comments by default.

Thanks Willr - superfast!

AllowComments didn't work for me, although ProvideComments did :)

This no longer works for me.

BlogEntry/php

	static $defaults = array(
		"ProvideComments" => false,
		'ShowInMenus' => false
	);

Me neither - anyone got any suggestions?

It did work for me, but I'm not a fan of changing the code in an external module, especially if pulling it in using svn:externals (or the git equivalent). Any fresh installation or update could potentially restore the change unnoticed.

A more sensible way to override the default is to add this line of code to mysite/_config.php:

BlogEntry::$defaults["ProvideComments"] = false;