In this lesson you will learn different options for comment systems natively whenever you start a new
WordPress Web site.
People can comment on your blog post or your page under settings and then discussion you can turn on
and off a number of settings related to your commenting such as authors being required to fill in their
name and email address.
Users must be registered to log in.
Commenting will be closed in articles after a certain number of days etc..
It's really important to have people submit their name and email address to further prevent spam.
Even though we already have Ask Asmat setup and blocking spam it's just another step that prevents spam
to see any comments you'll see them on the blog page itself.
Or you can go to his comments page right here.
Right now I don't have any comments to review.
Let me show you what the native commenting system looks like.
Here I am on the blog article about easy and cheap gardin boxes.
You can see here it says leave a reply.
It requires the email address.
You got a comment box name email Web site.
Post a comment.
People have the option of getting an email follow up when comments are made on their posts.
So this is a very simple but clean looking box and it's going to match the design of your theme.
So if you have a different theme it might look a little different.
There are other plug ins that you can use to sort of spice up your commenting system and there's no
need to do this but some other features that might be of interest to you.
One is within jetpacks.
So we've used jetpack for a number of things but if you go to jetpack settings and then engagement you
can see that there is a commenting system.
So right now it will probably be turned off.
So just go ahead and turn it on for you if it's turned off.
You can drop down this little menu and you can write in a new Commons headline.
There are a few different options for the appearance light dark and transparent.
And then just click save settings.
You can also get to these settings once you have turned them on.
Back on your discussion settings page under settings discussion and then if you scroll down to the bottom
jetpacks subscriptions settings you can see the different greeting text the color options and also to
turn on and off the follow blague option or the following comments.
Now lets see what this looks like.
In case remember this is the original.
Now this is with jet pack and people can log in with their WordPress their Twitter Facebook or Google
plus accounts to actually leave a comment if they don't want to actually just put in their email address
or web site they can just sign in.
So it looks a little bit different and gives you some different options for how it will look like.
Now there's one other plugin that I would recommend.
It's called discuss and it's actually been used by hundreds of thousands of people and the reviews don't
really give it justice.
It does come highly recommended by a number of Wordpress Web sites and WordPress users and creators
though they haven't updated it for a while.
It is still a very good system that's used by a lot of people.
One good thing about disguise is that people can use all kinds of things to log on and leave a review
and it comes with a really sophisticated way of moderating comments that I find I find a like so that's
what I use for videos.
Go on line dot com and so let me just show you what that looks like.
Here's one of my blog articles on my 20:16 goals and you can see that it has these comments.
You can see that you can easily start a comment if you have a discuss account you can sign up and a
lot of people nowadays have sign up for discuss though they already have a discuss account.
There's an easy option to share your conversation if you want and just visually.
I like how it looks and you can also up and down vote different comments when you do.
Install discuss it will appear under the comments menu under all conc discuss and you'll have to be
taken to the discussed moderation page and this is the one thing I don't like about it is that it's
kind of Sabur you have to open up a completely new tab to go to discuss moderation.
That being said you can moderate comments from the dashboard of your website.
Now I'm back on video school online dashboard so if I scroll down I can see recent comments and I can
prove unapproved reply right from here.
But if I do want to go to the discuss moderation page I can do that as well.
You can see here I have all my approved pending spam deleted etc. so I'm just going to show you again
what these three options look like.
Here's the discuss option.
Here's the jet pack option and here is the regular native commenting system within WordPress.
Honestly if I was starting out and if I were you I would just go with the native comments.
It looks really clean.
It's pretty easy to use.
The only thing is that people can't sign in with their Facebook or other other kind of account for commenting
but I think that's OK.
Thanks so much for watching if you have any other specific questions about commenting or things that
you can do with commenting please let me know.
Otherwise go ahead and start sending out your blog to the world so you can start getting some comments.