WordPress Training: Setting your discussion settings
Part of the blogging experience to the interactive dynamic discussion that take place after you publish your post. You can make a number of changes as to how WordPress will handle on manage discussion on your blog. To do that had over to the settings menu and choose the discussion option.
First up you got your default article settings. You can decide whether wordpress will automatically try to allowed blogs that you’ve linked to about your post or not. This can slow things down slightly when you hit publish, but it’s a nice way of letting people know that you’ve link to their work and might also send back some traffic to your blog in kind.
You can also decide if you’re going to allow pingbacks and trackbacks in your blog. If you do, whenever anyone sets your blog post, a little summary and link backs to their post will appear on your comments. If you done moderate to outbase. This pretty good blogging etiquette, it can be a nice way of giving your readers pointers to other content as well as letting you know who’s been writing about you.
You can also set a global rule as to whether you will allow people to comment on your post. It’s also a possible to decide this on a post by post basis and if that’s slightly to be the case, it’s better to leave this check. Next stop you can decide on some rules for what people need to do if they gonna leave a comment on your blog. They will have to fill out a name and email or do they need to be a registered user of your blog. Most commonly if you want running a private blog, it’s a good idea to request a name and email promptly spam reasons where’s asking people to log in to wordpress.com account first will limit your comments to fellow wordpress.com users. You can also choose to close comments after a given number of days from publication. So that it’s only possible to discuss an article within a certain time frame.
Then, decide if you like to receive email notifications when you comments to made or just if they held their moderations. You can also choose whether all comments need to be approved by you first before being published or if they will just appear right on your blog. And you can also set a condition that those authors if they have previous comment approved will be able to instantly publish their later comments.
Finally you can create a black listed particular words you didn’t post so black list send an emails, IP addresses so URL’s one per line so that wordpress can filter language or single out certain problems sources for you. Finally you can control her avatars will appear on your blog if at all and which avatar will appear if the user doesn’t one of their own. Save your changes and you’re done. Discussion on your blog, customize the taste.