WordPress Discussion Options WordPress Guide
Allowing your visitors to comment on your WordPress blog is a great way to encourage interaction and repeat traffic. With the use of the Akismet comment spam plugin, or your favorite comment spam plugin. And The Subscribe To Comments plugin, you can allow comments with very little moderation on your part. This short WordPress Guide will provide you with a balance of allowing comments without letting them over run your WordPress Blog.
Notifying other blogs you link to in your posts usually show as a comment on the blog post you referenced in the link. This is known as a Trackback and will provide a link on the other blog back to yours. I suggest this option is checked.
The next option, Allow link notifications… will notify you when other blogs link to a post on your blog, its always nice to see these and to know others find your content good enough to share with others so check it.
And since this is all about an interactive blog you definitely want to check Allow people to post comments on the article.
Both of the Email me whenever notifications boxes should be checked at least to start so you can monitor comments. If you find it overwhelming your inbox you can always change these options.
In the Before a comment appears section, I suggest just check the box, “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail”. Remember we want to encourage comments and the comment authors want to see their comments posted immediately. Holding a comment for moderation may discourage future comments and bog you down approving every comment.
There are software programs that automate blog comments that basically spam your blog, plastering their links on your posts. A common characteristic of comment spam has multiple links within it. This is where the Akismet plugin comes to the rescue, however if you find some getting through you can hold comments with specific words in them in the Comment Moderation box or add them to the Comment Blacklist in the bottom two boxes shown below.
Allowing others to comment on your WordPress blog posts is a great way to gain repeat traffic. Used in conjunction with the Subscribe To Comments plugin, that allows comment authors to subscribe to the comments on the post. They will be notified of any new comments and will come back to read more.
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Maybe it can get a little complicated if used in a different way….
akisment is working very well. i also use additionally a spam tool
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Ive been using Askimet on my blog for a number of months and it really does work a treat. Although i find that most comments need moderation/deletion in case they do make it through Askimet. Great Advice though!
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I am trying to figure out how to access the discussion options subpanel. I am a founding member of a wordpress blog and would assume I have the priviliges necessary to do so, but I cannot seem to find any tab that will get me to the adminstration options for discussions as I am trying to set up comment moderation due to some aggressive commentors making my life difficult. So far the other founding member claims to have access to these options and has used them, but I have not been able to and as the person who is around far more often to catch these types of comment abuses I am trying to find a way to do so as well.
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Nice discussion and good explanation also. Thanks…for this.
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Some people do abuse commenting and it make it hard for everybody else.
Anthony Benton
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If the comment landed in the spam category of wordpress dashboard. Is that means Askimet is working?
What i want is the message itself will no longer reach that spam folder of the comment in my dashboard. Do we have the same result? I still receives lot of spam comment in the spam folder
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Yes
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Drive-By comments will be deleted! Like "Thanks for sharing", "Nice post", or any other text that doesn't contribute to the discussion. If you ask a very specific question about your particular WordPress theme, it will probably be deleted. I can fix your WordPress site but for a price. If you ask a question like "Why don't my blog work right", it will be deleted. If you ask a question about your WordPress site without a leaving a link to it, it will be deleted. The point is to ask questions and or comment on the the actual content of the post, and to please use some common sense. All comments are moderated and will appear when approved. Thank you.