Dealers' sites are set up to allow visitors to comment on a blog post, which can be enabled under Settings > Discussion. The comment will either display immediately or be held in moderation until a site administrator approves the comment. To hold a comment in moderation, select Comment must be manually approved.



When comments are held for moderation, an email will be sent to the site administrator to approve or deny the comment. The email will contain a click back URL to the comment.  Currently, that click back URL is not pointing to the right location.    Until this issue is fixed, dealers need to moderate comments by going to the Comments section, located on the left-hand navigation menu.

 

Notification

  • Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article: This option will enable your site to automatically notify the sites you linked to that you have linked to them. They can then choose to tell their users that another site linked to them through a trackback or pingback.
  • Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.): This is similar to the previous option, only your position is reversed. Instead of allowing your site to notify other sites, you are allowing other sites to notify your site. If you enable this option, pingbacks and trackbacks are managed in a similar way to comments.

Commenter Rules

  • Allow people to post comments on new articles: This will turn comments on for all future articles. The easiest way to prevent comment spam is to not allow any comments. If you don’t need comments, you can disable them by default by unchecking this option.
  • Comment author must fill out name and e-mail: This prevents people from leaving anonymous comments (however, people could still use a fake name and e-mail address).
  • Users must be registered and logged in to comment: This option will only allow registered users of your site to post comments.
  • Automatically close comments on articles older than _____ days: Closing comments on posts that are no longer active is a good way to limit spam comments. This option will do will allow your site to do this automatically.

Comment Display

  • Enable threaded (nested) comments _____ levels deep: Enabling threaded comments allows your users to reply to one other. A reply to a comment is shown "nested" underneath the original comments. You can limit how many levels (a reply to a reply) of replies your site will allow by changing the number of levels here as well.
  • Break comments into Pages with _____top level comments per Page and the _____ Page displayed by default: This option changes how your comments are displayed. You can set how many comment you see per Page and if oldest or newest comments are displayed first.
  • Comments should be displayed with the _____ comments at the top of each Page: Set if you want newer or older comments at the top of each Page.

Comment Administration

  • Email me whenever … Anyone posts a comment and/or A comment is held for moderation: If you don't check your site often, this feature can help you stay up to date on your comments.
  • Comment must be manually approved: If you don’t check this option, comments can appear on your site without your permission. This will not only allow an influx of spam comments, but they will appear on your posts and pages immediately after being submitted. Check this box to maintain the maximum amount of control over your site's comments.
  • Comment author must have a previously approved comment: This option will allow you to cut down on the number of comments you have to approve. Once you approve one comment by an author, their future comments will be automatically approved.

Comment Spam

  • Hold a comment in the queue if it contains _____ links: Spam comments are designed to get users to click on links in order to drive traffic to other sites. As a result, many spam comments contain multiple links. Setting this option to hold all comments that contain 2 or more links will help catch more spam.
  • Comment Moderation and Comment Blacklist: You can experiment with these text boxes to catch spam that contains certain word or is posted from a particular IP address. Comments caught through blacklisting are not deleted, but instead moved to your spam folder.