You can not enable comments in future posts. Those posts are not public and are not private, so they verify the conditional in line 61 of `wp-comments-post.php` file; that conditional is (WP 4.1.1): } elseif ( ! $status_obj->public && ! $status_obj->private ) { /** * Fires when a comment is attempted on a post in draft mode. * * @since 1.5.1 * * @param int $comment_post_ID Post ID. */ do_action( 'comment_on_draft', $comment_post_ID ); exit; } To allow comments in scheduled posts you could hook in `comment_on_draft` action and copy the insert comment code from `wp-comments-post.php` inside the callback function. add_action( 'comment_on_draft', function( $comment_post_ID ) { do_action( 'pre_comment_on_post', $comment_post_ID ); $comment_author = ( isset($_POST['author']) ) ? trim(strip_tags($_POST['author'])) : null; $comment_author_email = ( isset($_POST['email']) ) ? trim($_POST['email']) : null; $comment_author_url = ( isset($_POST['url']) ) ? trim($_POST['url']) : null; $comment_content = ( isset($_POST['comment']) ) ? trim($_POST['comment']) : null; // If the user is logged in $user = wp_get_current_user(); if ( $user->exists() ) { if ( empty( $user->display_name ) ) $user->display_name=$user->user_login; $comment_author = wp_slash( $user->display_name ); $comment_author_email = wp_slash( $user->user_email ); $comment_author_url = wp_slash( $user->user_url ); if ( current_user_can( 'unfiltered_html' ) ) { if ( ! isset( $_POST['_wp_unfiltered_html_comment'] ) || ! wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['_wp_unfiltered_html_comment'], 'unfiltered-html-comment_' . $comment_post_ID ) ) { kses_remove_filters(); // start with a clean slate kses_init_filters(); // set up the filters } } } else { if ( get_option( 'comment_registration' ) || 'private' == $status ) { wp_die( __( 'Sorry, you must be logged in to post a comment.' ), 403 ); } } $comment_type = ''; if ( get_option('require_name_email') && !$user->exists() ) { if ( 6 > strlen( $comment_author_email ) || '' == $comment_author ) { wp_die( __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: please fill the required fields (name, email).' ), 200 ); } else if ( ! is_email( $comment_author_email ) ) { wp_die( __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: please enter a valid email address.' ), 200 ); } } if ( '' == $comment_content ) { wp_die( __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: please type a comment.' ), 200 ); } $comment_parent = isset($_POST['comment_parent']) ? absint($_POST['comment_parent']) : 0; $commentdata = compact('comment_post_ID', 'comment_author', 'comment_author_email', 'comment_author_url', 'comment_content', 'comment_type', 'comment_parent', 'user_ID'); $comment_id = wp_new_comment( $commentdata ); if ( ! $comment_id ) { wp_die( __( "<strong>ERROR</strong>: The comment could not be saved. Please try again later." ) ); } $comment = get_comment( $comment_id ); /** * Perform other actions when comment cookies are set. * * @since 3.4.0 * * @param object $comment Comment object. * @param WP_User $user User object. The user may not exist. */ do_action( 'set_comment_cookies', $comment, $user ); $location = empty($_POST['redirect_to']) ? get_comment_link($comment_id) : $_POST['redirect_to'] . '#comment-' . $comment_id; /** * Filter the location URI to send the commenter after posting. * * @since 2.0.5 * * @param string $location The 'redirect_to' URI sent via $_POST. * @param object $comment Comment object. */ $location = apply_filters( 'comment_post_redirect', $location, $comment ); wp_safe_redirect( $location ); exit; }); Additionally, we could check for "future" status to exclude "draft" posts, but in this case we can end up with conflicts with other plugins that use `comment_on_draft` action hook: add_action( 'comment_on_draft', function( $comment_post_ID ) { if( get_post_status( $comment_post_ID ) != 'future' ) { exit; } //Rest of the code });