Hi! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In this tutorial, I’m going to be showing you how to view and manage your comments. Now, there are two places you can get to your comment page. You can come over here to your navigation menu and click comments, or you can come over to the right now section of the dashboard and click comments here as well.
So, once you get to your comments page, you will see all of your comments listed in this section. I only have two here, and the first thing I want to do is explain a little bit about what everything on this page means. So, first up here we have the amount of comments that you have that are pending, how many you have approved, how many are spam, and how many are trash. So, those numbers will vary depending on how many you have approved or put in the spam or trash box.
Underneath, we have the dropdown menu where you can choose whether you want to approve, unapproved, mark as spam or move to trash as well. There are two areas where you can do this, and I will show you the next one in a few minutes. Once you have chosen that, you would click apply, and it will apply that specific action. Here you can choose what comments you want shown, whether it is comments or pings. It’s just the way to filter out the comments that you are viewing.
Underneath here is where it will be the author of who has left the comment for you. Right here is going to be the comment with the date and time it was left, and over here all the way to the right it’s going to show you the post that that comment was left on.
So, now once you’re ready to view your comment, you scroll over the specific comment that was left, and you will see a few little options here on the bottom in different colors. The first one you choose when you want to approve a comment. Now, depending on how you have chosen your management comment settings, a lot of times you will actually have to approve settings before they are actually published to your blog. So, here they are held in moderation. Once you actually click approve, it will then appear on your blog for all the rest of your viewers to see.
If you want to reply to this specific commenter, you would click this and a text box will appear right here where you can give them a reply. You can also do a quick edit and quickly edit their post. Some people like to do this if they just quickly want to do a spell check or just tidy things up on their blog. Then, you can also edit it by opening up a brand new page where you can edit the comment. Then you can either mark it as spam or move it to the trash box. These are just a few options right here for how to manage your comments.
Lastly, you have the option to search comments up here. So, for people who have a ton of comments left on their blog every day, and they want to find a specific one, they can type that in right here.
That is how you view and manage your comments. Please stay tuned for more videos on comments. Thank you.
Andy Johnson has been on the Internet since the its dawn(ie his first computer program was recorded on cassette tape) and his first hard drive cost about as much his current MacBook. His first byline was in 1993 for a local newspaper rag he eventually helmed, and his last “real job” was at a computer start up which ended when it ended. Throughout it all he’s freelanced and blogged. Now he is mesmerized by Search Engine Optimization forever trying to “rise to the top” for the right reasons. He’s been married to his wife Julia for as long as he can remember and has two lovely, wonderful children. He looks forward to sharing the latest in the technical best for all the online entrepreneurs.
How to Manage Comments in WordPress
Hi! Welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In this tutorial, I’m going to be showing you how to view and manage your comments. Now, there are two places you can get to your comment page. You can come over here to your navigation menu and click comments, or you can come over to the right now section of the dashboard and click comments here as well.
So, once you get to your comments page, you will see all of your comments listed in this section. I only have two here, and the first thing I want to do is explain a little bit about what everything on this page means. So, first up here we have the amount of comments that you have that are pending, how many you have approved, how many are spam, and how many are trash. So, those numbers will vary depending on how many you have approved or put in the spam or trash box.
Underneath, we have the dropdown menu where you can choose whether you want to approve, unapproved, mark as spam or move to trash as well. There are two areas where you can do this, and I will show you the next one in a few minutes. Once you have chosen that, you would click apply, and it will apply that specific action. Here you can choose what comments you want shown, whether it is comments or pings. It’s just the way to filter out the comments that you are viewing.
Underneath here is where it will be the author of who has left the comment for you. Right here is going to be the comment with the date and time it was left, and over here all the way to the right it’s going to show you the post that that comment was left on.
So, now once you’re ready to view your comment, you scroll over the specific comment that was left, and you will see a few little options here on the bottom in different colors. The first one you choose when you want to approve a comment. Now, depending on how you have chosen your management comment settings, a lot of times you will actually have to approve settings before they are actually published to your blog. So, here they are held in moderation. Once you actually click approve, it will then appear on your blog for all the rest of your viewers to see.
If you want to reply to this specific commenter, you would click this and a text box will appear right here where you can give them a reply. You can also do a quick edit and quickly edit their post. Some people like to do this if they just quickly want to do a spell check or just tidy things up on their blog. Then, you can also edit it by opening up a brand new page where you can edit the comment. Then you can either mark it as spam or move it to the trash box. These are just a few options right here for how to manage your comments.
Lastly, you have the option to search comments up here. So, for people who have a ton of comments left on their blog every day, and they want to find a specific one, they can type that in right here.
That is how you view and manage your comments. Please stay tuned for more videos on comments. Thank you.
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Andy Johnson has been on the Internet since the its dawn(ie his first computer program was recorded on cassette tape) and his first hard drive cost about as much his current MacBook. His first byline was in 1993 for a local newspaper rag he eventually helmed, and his last “real job” was at a computer start up which ended when it ended. Throughout it all he’s freelanced and blogged. Now he is mesmerized by Search Engine Optimization forever trying to “rise to the top” for the right reasons. He’s been married to his wife Julia for as long as he can remember and has two lovely, wonderful children. He looks forward to sharing the latest in the technical best for all the online entrepreneurs.