WordPress – Discussion Settings

The WordPress Discussion Settings page contains the following entries:

• Default article settings - By ticking on or off the specific boxes, in this section you can establish some basic behaviour about your posts (articles):
  • Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)
  • Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)
  • Allow people to post comments on new articles. With this last entry you can set if you want visitors to be allowed to write comments on your posts or not.
  •  All these settings may be overridden on individual posts.
• Other comment settings
  • Comment author must fill out name and e-mail. This entry should be ticked on, in order to collect visitors’ emails, good for sending out possible marketing material of yours, and also to prevent anonymous abusive or spamming comments.
  • Users must be registered and logged in to comment. The same considerations as the previous entry do apply.
  • Automatically close comments on articles older than
    
    days. You can establish for how long you want people to be able to comment on your single posts. You can set this parameter to few days if you wish visitors to concentrate on the most recent posts of yours.
  • Enable threaded (nested) comments
    
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

       levels deep.

     

  •   
    Break comments into pages with

     

    
    comments per page and the
    last first

     

  •  page displayed by default 
  • Comments should be displayed with the
    
    older newer

     comments at the top of each page

     

     

• E-mail me whenever
  • Anyone posts a comment. Useful to keep an eye on your blog whatever else you might be doing.
  • A comment is held for moderation. This can be useful to process comments fast.
• Before a comment appears
  • An administrator must always approve the comment. This is mandatory if you do not your blog to be inundated by a lot of nonsense.
  • Comment author must have a previously approved comment. This can be useful if you do not set on the previous entry.
• Comment Moderation. You can also filter out incoming comments by setting the following fields as appropriate. 

 

 

 

Hold a comment in the queue if it contains

 

or more links. (A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks.)

 

When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be held in the moderation queue. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress”.

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

 Comment Blacklist

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

Comment BlacklistWhen a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be marked as spam. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Avatars

An avatar is an image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on avatar enabled sites. Here you can enable the display of avatars for people who comment on your blog.

 

   

   

 Avatar Display

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

Avatar display

 

Don’t show Avatars

Show Avatars

 

 

   

   

 Maximum Rating

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

Maximum Rating

 

G — Suitable for all audiences

PG — Possibly offensive, usually for audiences 13 and above

R — Intended for adult audiences above 17

X — Even more mature than above

 

 

   

   

 Default Avatar

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

Default Avatar

 

 

 

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