Comments: How To Set Up and Manage
You can configure your website to allow visitors to comment on either your blog posts, web pages or both.
Posts
Here are some common Post Comment configuration choices you should know about:
- Turn Off Post Comments Altogether: Use Dashboard, Settings, General and turn on the check box “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”. Turn off the check box for “Anyone can register”.
- Allow Comments by Registered Members: Use Dashboard, Settings, General and turn on the check box “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”. Turn on the check box for Anyone Can Register.
- Default Comments Setting Off for New Posts: Use Dashboard, Settings, Reading and turn off the check box to “Allow people to post comments on the article”. This will mean that new posts will have comments turned off unless you switch them on under Discussion Options for that post.
- Allow Post Comments after Moderation: use your Dashboard, Settings, Discussion and set check the “An administrator must always approve the comment”.
- Allow Post Comments For Prior Commenters: use your Dashboard, Settings, Discussion and turn off the “An administrator must always approve the comment”. Turn on the “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”.
You can setup notifications by email to yourself whenever a new comment is made.
Pages
You can also allow or disallow Page Comments for your standard web pages.
- go to Dashboard, Manage, Pages and Edit the page
- set the Discussion Options to Allow Comments if you want visitors to be able to leave comments on the Page
- set the Discussion Options to Allow Pings if you would like excerpts of articles from other blogs linking to you to appear as comments at the bottom of your Page