WordPress Discussion Settings is used for the conversation between the blogger and the user who visits the blog. This setting is managed by the blog administrator, which allows users to interact with your website via comments. WordPress Discussion Settings steps are given below, you can quickly and easily understand the discussion setting of WordPress.
- First, go to the login panel of WordPress and login into WordPress with the help of a username and password. After successful login into WordPress, you will be able to see the dashboard.
- To go to the Discussion setting of WordPress, you will see menu options on the left side of the dashboard. As you move the mouse cursor over the setting option, you will see a menu related to WordPress Discussion Settings, in which you have to click on the discussion option.
- After clicking on discussion, you will see a page like the below.
There are several sections in the WordPress Discussion Settings that you can understand one by one in the below article.
| Default post settings |
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This option has some default settings related to new posts and new pages, there are a total of 3 options
- By checking this option, when you publish the article, a notification (sends pings and trackback) will be sent to other blogs which you have linked in the article.
- If you put a checkmark on the second option, then you allow link notifications from other blogs.
- If you want to allow comments in your blog and post for the user, then check on the third option
| Other Comment settings |
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- If you check this box, then you can protect your blog from spammers because it is mandatory for the user to enter his name and email address while commenting.
- when checked mark this checkbox, only registered users can comment on the post, if you want to allow anyone to comment on your post, then keep this option unchecked.
- If you check this box, you can set the particular comment time in your blog to publish a post. By default Comment day remains 14, it can be increased or decreased according to your requirement.
- If you check this check box, then you can allow users to comment and also get replies from other users.
- By checking in this option, if your post gets a lot of comments, then you can split the comment into different pages.
- if Checkmark this option to sort the comments in the ascending and descending order as per your requirement.
| Email me whenever |
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- If you check on this option, then every post published by the author will get a comment in the email.
- This option is used when you do not want your comment to be updated before being moderated by the admin
| Before a comment appears |
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- If you put a checkmark on it, then only the comments approved by the admin will appear on the page and post.
- If you want the comment user to go to his email and approve his comment. if the email address doesn’t match the email used at the time of commenting, hold the comment for moderation.
| Comment Moderation |
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- How many links do you want to allow in the comment Put the Specific types of words that should be used in the link? You can check this box for such a setting.
| Disallowed Comment Keys |
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- To protect your blog from spam, you can block specific words in comments so that visitors to your blog will not be able to use these types of words (like URL, email, etc.) in comments.
| Avatars |
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The last section of the discussion setting of WordPress is Avatar. An avatar is a small image that appears behind your profile name in the top right corner of your WordPress dashboard. Some options related to the setting of the avatar on the WordPress site are given below, which can be set according to your need.
Avatar Display By checking on this option, the avatar will appear beside your profile name.
Maximum rating There are 4 types of options you can use for the avatar, which are something like G, PG, R, and X. You can set options as to which age of audience you want the Display WordPress post.
Default Avatar From this section in the WordPress discussion setting you can see some avatars with images. You can set these avatars according to your visitor’s email address
| Save Changes |
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After the setting is done as per requirement in the WordPress discussion setting, click on Save Changes at the bottom of the page to save the permanent setting.
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