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Managing Comments

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 at 5:11 pm  
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09 COMMENTS 200x112 Managing CommentsComments are one of the ways interaction occurs between readers and writers of a blog. You can moderate comments, allow registration for commenting, and organize comments through the WordPress dashboard.

In this video, we’ll take a look at how to enable and moderate comments on your WordPress site, including tips and best practices to encourage interactive discussion with your visitors.

Comments are an important feature of a modern site, because they allow your readers to respond to your content and interact with you. Typically, readers provide their own thoughts or questions regarding the content of the post, but your readers may also provide links to other resources, generate discussion, or simply compliment you for a well-written post.

Comments can be controlled and regulated through the use of filters for language and content, and even queued for approval before they are visible on the web site. This is useful in dealing with comment spam.

Covered in this video:

  • How to enable Comments and Discussions.
  • Best practices and settings for allowing comments.
  • Filtering comments for language and content.
  • How to approve, edit, delete or mark a comment as spam using the Comments sub-panel.

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Settings and Configuration

Friday, July 15th, 2011 at 5:41 pm  
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17 SETTINGS1 200x112 Settings and ConfigurationThis final video in the series shows the settings and configurations you can make to customize the function and look of your blog to the greatest detail. It also includes some important settings that need to be made after installing a new WordPress website.

We’ll discuss how to configure the settings to optimize and get the most out of your WordPress site.

The Settings sub-panel contains all of the settings that determine how your site behaves, how you interact with your site, and how the rest of the world interacts with your site.

Covered in this video:

  • General – Updating your site’s title and location, who may register an account at your blog, and how dates and times are calculated and displayed.
  • Writing – Customizing the interface with which you write new posts.
  • Reading – Deciding if you want posts–or a static page–to be displayed as your site’s homepage. How many posts are displayed at one time, and how to adjust RSS syndication feed features to determine how the information from your site is sent to a reader’s web browser or other applications.
  • Discussion – Control the settings concerning incoming and outgoing comments, pingbacks and trackbacks, email notifications and the use of avatars.
  • Media – Specify the maximum dimensions in pixels to use when inserting an image into the body of a post.
  • Privacy – Choose whether you want your site to be indexed by search engines–like Google, Bing, or Yahoo!–or only to normal visitors.
  • Permalinks – Create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives.
  • Miscellaneous – File upload settings, link tracking and support for custom “hacks”.

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