WEBVTT 00:00.120 --> 00:06.450 In this lesson you will learn different options for comment systems natively whenever you start a new 00:06.450 --> 00:07.560 WordPress Web site. 00:07.560 --> 00:14.370 People can comment on your blog post or your page under settings and then discussion you can turn on 00:14.370 --> 00:20.850 and off a number of settings related to your commenting such as authors being required to fill in their 00:20.850 --> 00:22.410 name and email address. 00:22.440 --> 00:24.550 Users must be registered to log in. 00:24.590 --> 00:29.170 Commenting will be closed in articles after a certain number of days etc.. 00:29.190 --> 00:35.460 It's really important to have people submit their name and email address to further prevent spam. 00:35.460 --> 00:41.370 Even though we already have Ask Asmat setup and blocking spam it's just another step that prevents spam 00:41.460 --> 00:45.010 to see any comments you'll see them on the blog page itself. 00:45.060 --> 00:48.450 Or you can go to his comments page right here. 00:48.480 --> 00:50.990 Right now I don't have any comments to review. 00:51.000 --> 00:54.510 Let me show you what the native commenting system looks like. 00:54.510 --> 00:58.330 Here I am on the blog article about easy and cheap gardin boxes. 00:58.330 --> 01:00.830 You can see here it says leave a reply. 01:00.870 --> 01:02.690 It requires the email address. 01:02.730 --> 01:05.370 You got a comment box name email Web site. 01:05.370 --> 01:06.320 Post a comment. 01:06.330 --> 01:11.620 People have the option of getting an email follow up when comments are made on their posts. 01:11.640 --> 01:18.900 So this is a very simple but clean looking box and it's going to match the design of your theme. 01:18.900 --> 01:21.620 So if you have a different theme it might look a little different. 01:21.630 --> 01:26.940 There are other plug ins that you can use to sort of spice up your commenting system and there's no 01:26.940 --> 01:31.340 need to do this but some other features that might be of interest to you. 01:31.350 --> 01:32.620 One is within jetpacks. 01:32.640 --> 01:37.680 So we've used jetpack for a number of things but if you go to jetpack settings and then engagement you 01:37.680 --> 01:40.230 can see that there is a commenting system. 01:40.230 --> 01:42.800 So right now it will probably be turned off. 01:42.800 --> 01:46.680 So just go ahead and turn it on for you if it's turned off. 01:46.710 --> 01:50.730 You can drop down this little menu and you can write in a new Commons headline. 01:50.740 --> 01:54.760 There are a few different options for the appearance light dark and transparent. 01:54.780 --> 01:56.550 And then just click save settings. 01:56.610 --> 01:59.640 You can also get to these settings once you have turned them on. 01:59.730 --> 02:05.250 Back on your discussion settings page under settings discussion and then if you scroll down to the bottom 02:05.640 --> 02:12.270 jetpacks subscriptions settings you can see the different greeting text the color options and also to 02:12.270 --> 02:15.750 turn on and off the follow blague option or the following comments. 02:15.750 --> 02:17.200 Now lets see what this looks like. 02:17.270 --> 02:19.230 In case remember this is the original. 02:19.230 --> 02:25.920 Now this is with jet pack and people can log in with their WordPress their Twitter Facebook or Google 02:25.920 --> 02:31.560 plus accounts to actually leave a comment if they don't want to actually just put in their email address 02:31.560 --> 02:32.980 or web site they can just sign in. 02:33.000 --> 02:37.500 So it looks a little bit different and gives you some different options for how it will look like. 02:37.500 --> 02:40.410 Now there's one other plugin that I would recommend. 02:40.470 --> 02:46.710 It's called discuss and it's actually been used by hundreds of thousands of people and the reviews don't 02:46.710 --> 02:48.240 really give it justice. 02:48.240 --> 02:55.470 It does come highly recommended by a number of Wordpress Web sites and WordPress users and creators 02:55.560 --> 02:57.960 though they haven't updated it for a while. 02:57.960 --> 03:01.070 It is still a very good system that's used by a lot of people. 03:01.230 --> 03:07.830 One good thing about disguise is that people can use all kinds of things to log on and leave a review 03:07.920 --> 03:15.540 and it comes with a really sophisticated way of moderating comments that I find I find a like so that's 03:15.540 --> 03:16.890 what I use for videos. 03:16.890 --> 03:21.370 Go on line dot com and so let me just show you what that looks like. 03:21.390 --> 03:27.780 Here's one of my blog articles on my 20:16 goals and you can see that it has these comments. 03:27.780 --> 03:33.360 You can see that you can easily start a comment if you have a discuss account you can sign up and a 03:33.360 --> 03:38.310 lot of people nowadays have sign up for discuss though they already have a discuss account. 03:38.310 --> 03:42.970 There's an easy option to share your conversation if you want and just visually. 03:42.990 --> 03:48.780 I like how it looks and you can also up and down vote different comments when you do. 03:48.780 --> 03:55.020 Install discuss it will appear under the comments menu under all conc discuss and you'll have to be 03:55.020 --> 04:00.180 taken to the discussed moderation page and this is the one thing I don't like about it is that it's 04:00.180 --> 04:05.070 kind of Sabur you have to open up a completely new tab to go to discuss moderation. 04:05.070 --> 04:09.120 That being said you can moderate comments from the dashboard of your website. 04:09.120 --> 04:16.170 Now I'm back on video school online dashboard so if I scroll down I can see recent comments and I can 04:16.320 --> 04:19.100 prove unapproved reply right from here. 04:19.110 --> 04:23.670 But if I do want to go to the discuss moderation page I can do that as well. 04:23.670 --> 04:30.810 You can see here I have all my approved pending spam deleted etc. so I'm just going to show you again 04:30.810 --> 04:32.770 what these three options look like. 04:32.790 --> 04:34.720 Here's the discuss option. 04:34.770 --> 04:41.210 Here's the jet pack option and here is the regular native commenting system within WordPress. 04:41.250 --> 04:45.340 Honestly if I was starting out and if I were you I would just go with the native comments. 04:45.340 --> 04:46.730 It looks really clean. 04:46.740 --> 04:48.180 It's pretty easy to use. 04:48.210 --> 04:54.240 The only thing is that people can't sign in with their Facebook or other other kind of account for commenting 04:54.250 --> 04:55.650 but I think that's OK. 04:55.650 --> 05:00.240 Thanks so much for watching if you have any other specific questions about commenting or things that 05:00.240 --> 05:02.700 you can do with commenting please let me know. 05:02.700 --> 05:07.830 Otherwise go ahead and start sending out your blog to the world so you can start getting some comments.