Wordpress Comments and Social Interaction Archives

Managing Comments

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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Adding New Users

15 USERS 200x112 Adding New UsersThis video is about WordPress Users, and managing the different available roles, and registration options in the WordPress dashboard. Users are those who can log in to your WordPress installation, and you can give them different levels of permissions, from Authors or Editors, to additional Administrators and simple Subscribers.

The Authors & Users sub-panel enables you to set up new user accounts, as well as change user information, or delete users.

Covered in this video:

  • How to add a new user in the Users > Add New sub-panel.
  • How to edit or delete existing users.
  • How to set individual permissions for each user.
  • What roles and capabilities are available to each permission level?
  • Editing your own profile and login information.

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