Commenting Options on Blogger

This installment of the "How to Setup Your Blog" series is some insight into the comment moderation features in Blogger.

You can choose which posts have comments enabled. When writing a post, click "Post Options" at the bottom left to open the options. This is also where you can schedule the post to appear at a later date or time! To close off commenting, click the "Don't allow" radio button. Unless you have changed Comment settings, this option default to "Allow". (Click the screenshots for a less blurry look)






The universal comment settings are under the "Settings" tab. The comments on all posts can be hidden here as well as deciding on anonymous commenting.





The four commenting choices are:

• Anyone: This includes anonymous posters. People have the option of including their name or signing in, or they show up as anonymous. Anyone who stops by your blog can leave a comment.


• Registered Users: Requires commenters to sign in with Blogger or OpenID, limits your commenters to those with accounts


• Users with Google Accounts: Only those who sign in with Google can comment


• Only members of this blog: The most limited option, this make the blog a forum of sorts. Anyone can read it, but only those who you, the blog owner, add to the blog can comment. The options for adding people are under "Settings" "permissions"

In addition to this, you can setup word verification to prevent spambots


and/or moderate comments before they're posted. If you want anyone to comment but are afraid of spam, you can set the blog to have comments sent to you for approval before they're public. Or you can only moderate comments on older posts. Setting up an RSS feed to your posts is one way to monitor them if you don't want to receive emails for each comment - which is also something you can setup on this page.

And decide how readers see the comments and comment box when they click the comment link on a post.

• Full page brings the comments up as their own page, there is a link to see the blog post, and the comment box is immediately to the right of the first comments. When someone clicks the title of the blog post the comments are found beneath the post, but to post a comment the reader is directed to the full page by clicking the comment link.


• Pop up window may be blocked by some browsers as it pops up a window with a new page with the comments and comment box.


• Embedded below post is how this blog is setup. The comments appear below the post when one clicks on the title of the post or the comment link. A comment box is available below these. (Post pages is the option to have each post given their own URL. This option is under "Settings" "archiving")

You can also setup the message commenters see before posting their comment if you scroll down a bit on the settings page.