Discussion Settings. The Discussion Settings are used to control how visitors and other blogs interact with your site.
Default Article Settings In the Default article settings, there are three options. These settings are defaults for new posts or pages, which can always be changed individually on each article. This first two options deal with pingbacks and trackbacks. The first determines if your blog will send out pings and trackbacks to other blogs when you publish articles. . ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Other comment settings has quite a few options, so lets explain them one at a time.
Comment author must fill out name and e-mail – When this setting is on, anyone leaving a comment will be forced to leave a name and a valid email address. E-mail Me Whenever The E-mail me whenever options control when you get notified about new comments. Comment Embeds. WordPress.com allows you and your readers to embed YouTube videos and tweets from Twitter directly into blog comments by simply adding a single URL into the comment text.
Of course, if a reader embeds an inappropriate video or tweet on your blog, you are free to remove the link or delete the entire comment, just as you are with other comments. We may expand this functionality in the future to include embeds from other services. YouTube To embed a YouTube video into a comment, simply grab the URL/permalink of any YouTube video and paste it directly into your comment text: Once your comment is posted/approved, you will be able to watch the video directly from the comment area. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Twitter To embed a tweet into a comment, simply grab the URL/permalink of any tweet and paste it directly into your comment text: To obtain the URL/permalink of a tweet first locate the tweet you want to post.
You’ll be taken to the page for the individual tweet. Help us improve: Who Can Comment. Comments are enabled on WordPress.com blogs by default.
You can enable and disable comments. Each blog owner has full control to approve, delete, or edit comments left on their blog. You can allow only registered WordPress.com users to comment, or you can allow anyone to comment. If you allow anyone to comment, you can choose whether the name and email fields are required or not. Your readers can also post comments using their Facebook, Google+, or Twitter accounts. These options are available on the Settings → Discussion page under Other comment settings: Comment author must fill out name and e-mail Makes the name and email address fields required fields. Unwanted Comments and Comment Spam. Trackbacks. Trackbacks are a way to notify legacy blog systems that you’ve linked to them.
If you link other WordPress blogs they’ll be notified automatically using pingbacks, no other action necessary. Think of trackbacks as the equivalent of acknowledgements and references at the end of an academic paper or chapter in a text book. To send a trackback, add the trackback URI from the other blog post to the Send Trackbacks module in your blog post before you publish it.
Pingbacks. A pingback is a type of comment that’s created when you link to another blog post where pingbacks are enabled.
The best way to think about pingbacks is as remote comments: Person A posts something on his blog.Person B posts on her own blog, linking to Person A’s post. This automatically sends a pingback to Person A when both have pingback enabled blogs.Person A’s blog receives the pingback, then automatically goes to Person B’s post to confirm that the pingback did, in fact, originate there. My Comments. Comments are a way for visitors to add feedback and reply to your posts and pages.
If you choose to enable comments on your site, then a comment form will appear at the bottom of the posts and people can respond to what you have written. Table of Contents In Settings. Manage Comments. WordPress.com blog owners have full control to approve, delete, or edit the comments left on their blog.
There are separate help pages showing how to enable and disable comments and how to control who can comment. To manage comments, go to the Comments link in the left menu of your blog dashboard. There are several ways to view comments. There are filter links for all, pending, approved, spam, or trash comments. There is a search option on the right, and there are links to comment pages below the search box. . ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Facebook and Twitter Comments. Here at WordPress.com you and your visitors can use your Facebook, Google+, Twitter or WordPress.com account to leave comments.
This unified comment form including Facebook, Google+, and Twitter login is active on all WordPress.com blogs. Logging in When your readers click on the icon for Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, a new window will appear from that service asking them to log in and approve giving their information to your blog. This window is controlled by Facebook, Google+, or Twitter for security reasons. It is possible to be logged in to different services at the same time, in which case visitors to your blog will be able to choose which identity to use when posting a comment by simply clicking the appropriate icon in the comment area. The comments area will detect the theme you are using and switch between a light or dark version automatically to better blend in. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Changing the Prompt Help us improve:
Enable and Disable Comments. Comments are enabled on new WordPress.com posts and pages by default.
You can change the default for new posts or pages, as well as enable/disable comments on posts or pages you’ve already published. You can change the defaults for new posts or pages on theSettings -> Discussion screen. Please see this support doc for more information. To change the comment settings for a post or page you already published, first locate the post/page you want to edit on the Posts or Pages page on your WordPress.com site’s dashboard and click on its title.
Then, locate the Discussion module on the edit screen, and either check or uncheck the options it offers: Email Notifications. The email address you used when registering your WordPress.com account is listed on your Account Settings page, and under Users → Personal Settings in your dashboard.
That is the email address where you will receive notifications from WordPress.com. Account notifications are sent to this address, for purposes including: Forgotten passwordUpdates from blogs you followNew blog activationPaid upgrades You will also receive notifications about activity on your blog, for example: Comments. Comments are a way for visitors to add feedback to your posts and pages. If you choose to enable comments for your posts, then a comment form will appear at the bottom of the posts and people can respond to what you have written. Approved comments are displayed on individual posts, not on the blog home page. Click on a post title to see comments. You can show the latest comments on the blog home page by adding the recent comments widget to the sidebar if you wish. Comment Reply via Email. Comment reply by email allows you to send a reply to a comment directly from the comment notification email. No need for an extra trip from your email client to your WordPress blog just to reply to a comment.
Requirements For comment reply by email to work, you must meet these requirements: Settings > Discussion > E-mail me whenever > Anyone posts a commentReply must contain the quoted comment notification message or contain “! END” on its own line at the end of your reply in the email. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Quoting Most email clients will include the original message in an email reply. Comment Notification Email. If comment notifications are enabled, the post author will receive an email when a new comment is left on a post they wrote.
Comment notification emails are sent to the post author at their account’s email address. You can choose to receive an email for every comment or just for comments that are held for moderation. You can change these options from the Settings → Discussion page: E-mail me whenever: Anyone posts a commentA comment is held for moderation The comment notification email has all of the information about the comment including the title, author, email, URL, IP address, comment contents, and links to approve, delete, or mark the comment as spam. Comment Display Options. You can control comment threading, paging, and comment order settings from the Settings -> Discussion page in your WordPress.com blog dashboard. With the threaded comments option, comment replies will appear directly below the relevant comment instead of in strict chronological order. That means you can reply to a comment that was left a month or even a year ago, and your comment will appear in just the right spot.
You control the conversation by setting the number of levels allowed in your comment threads, from 1 to 10. We suggest setting threaded comments to about three levels deep, to keep the conversation focused. Here’s how that looks with the Contempt theme.