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. . ↑ 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. Before a comment appears has two different settings. Comment Moderation has a few different options.
Don’t discard spam on old posts – When this option is not checked, comments that Akismet thinks are spam will automatically be deleted for posts published more than 30 days ago. Follow Blog. 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. Check out our support page Comment with Facebook, Google+, or Twitter for more information. 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. There are also settings that control whether a comment is approved automatically or if it must be reviewed before it is published on a blog.
. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. 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. A trackback URI from a WordPress blog will end with /trackback/. How do I send a Trackback Go to the post on the other person’s blog and look for the ‘Trackback URI’ or similar.
Once you have that link you need to copy the URL of the link. In Firefox, Right-click on the link and Copy Link Location. In Internet Explorer, Right-click on the link and Copy Shortcut. Back on your blog, scroll down from the editor to the Trackbacks module and paste the URL into that box. Publish your post and the trackback will be sent. Help us improve: 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.
Check out the WordPress.org Introduction to Blogging article for a more detailed explanation. To create a pingback, just link to another WordPress blog post. (Click here for more information on adding links to your posts.) Comments are styled differently for each theme. Can I stop self-pings? Yes. Self-pings (pings within your own blog) are found useful by some, annoying by others. Normally when you create a link, the entire URL including is used. To this: ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Disabling Pingbacks.
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 You can enable/disable comments on future posts in your Discussion settings under My Site(s) → Settings → Discussion. Under “Default article settings,” toggle on or off the option to “Allow people to post comments on new articles.” On a Post or Page You can enable/disable comments on a post you’ve already published by going into your post’s Discussion options.
Go to My Site(s) → Posts or Pages and select the post or page you want to enable (or disable) comments on.In the settings sidebar, find and open the Discussion tab.Select Allow Comments to enable comments, or deselect the option in order to disable comments. For a Group of Posts or Pages ↑ Table of Contents ↑ To find the individual post page, click on the post title. 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. There are also bulk action and filtering options as well as a button to let you re-check your comments for spam. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ When you hover the mouse over a comment in the Edit Comments page, you will see comment actions appear below the comment.
This is an illustration of all the parts of a comment as seen from the comment edit page. This is a view of a comment from the Quick Edit screen. Keyboard Shortcuts The keyboard shortcuts for comment actions are: Help us improve: 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: We're always looking to improve our documentation. 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: Make sure to save the post after you change any comment setting. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Missing Discussion Module The edit screen on your blog is highly customizable. By default, new blogs on WordPress.com will have the Discussion module hidden. See the Screen Options support doc for more information. Help us improve: 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 posted on your blog1Comments held for moderationLikes received on your posts1New blog followers from WordPress.com users2 1 notifications on a multi-user blog will be sent to the post author2 if a new follower is logged out of WordPress.com, an email notification will not be sent to the blog admin email address You can change your activity notification preferences on the Settings -> Discussion page.
See the Comment Reply via Email help page for more details. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ No. Help us improve: 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. Looking for your own comments on other blogs? The Comments I Made section of your Reader tracks comments you made on blog posts across WordPress.com so you can see when people reply to you. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Blog owners are in complete control of the comments left on their blog.
No. There are some noteworthy comment features at WordPress.com such as: Learn more The Perfect Host: Comment Moderation (The Daily Post, October 10, 2012) Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. 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 “!
↑ Table of Contents ↑ Quoting Most email clients will include the original message in an email reply. When WordPress.com reads ! Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. 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.
If you turn on the comment reply by email feature on the Settings > Discussion page, you can reply directly to comments from the email notification messages. See the Comment Reply via Email help page for more details. What if the emails aren’t getting through? If you’re not receiving comment notification emails: Help us improve: 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. To save you and your readers from scroll-finger strain, you can break up comments into pages. Comment ordering is up to you. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation.