Blog with WordPress - Comments
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Step 8: Comments
If all goes well and you start blogging regularly, you stand a good change of getting comments from readers. Using the Comments tab in Dashboard, it’s easy to moderate and manage everything that’s being put into your blog by outside sources.
You want to have user comments, because interaction is part of the whole blogging experience. At the same time, you want to make sure those comments are appropriate in nature. You may see comments which seem to contain advertisements or unsuitable content.
When you go to the Manage Comments screen, you’ll be able to choose one option for each comment created on your blog: Approve, Mark as Spam, Unapprove and Delete. When you approve a comment, it will be released for appearance on your blog. When you mark something as spam, you alert WordPress to the problem so that hopefully the spammers will be captured. When you Unapprove a comment, it’s because you feel it is offensive or otherwise inappropriate for public display. The commenter will have a chance to fix their message. When you delete a comment outright, it disappears.
A Quick Word About Upgrades
There is yet one more tab in the Dashboard to explore: Upgrades. Let’s say things are going well on your blog and you’d like to stretch your Internet wings a little. A WordPress upgrade may be the answer. Users of WordPress can pay to enjoy custom CSS, unlimited private users and more space. WordPress is free; upgrades are not.
Your WordPress Blog
Eight steps and you’re blogging with WordPress. This site gives users the opportunity to create pages and pages of posts filled with pictures, links and video, sharing what they have to say with an entire world of online users. And you can manage to get it created and online in less than twenty minutes. Creating a blog may not be a snap…but it doesn’t take much more than a few quick clicks.
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