Your readers can respond to articles, reviews, or photos on your blog by posting comments. You can manage comments to your blog in the following ways:
Choosing to allow comments or not. You can enable comments on a per-entry basis, which limits comments for certain entries and not for others. You can also use comment moderation, which will allow you to view and approve either all comments, or comments flagged as spam, before they are posted on your blog.
Allowing or disallowing HTML formatting in comments. Commenters allowed to use HTML formatting can apply text formatting (such as bold, italics or underlining) to their comments, and they can insert hyperlinks inside their comments.
Allowing or disallowing anonymous comments. If you do not allow anonymous comments, only readers who have logged in to their reader accounts can leave a comment.
There are two views for comments, one from an anonymous user viewing the comments from the web and the other from a Publisher viewing the comments from the Publisher Control Panel.
Example: Comments on a post
Parts of a comment
Title
The title is shown in bold at the beginning of the comment and is separated from the rest of the comment by a horizontal line.
The default title is "Re: X", where X is the title of the item to which the comment is a reply. A comment can be a reply to an article or another comment.
Byline
This is the name of the author of the comment. It is listed below the line that separates the title from the rest of the comment.
If the author of the comment was logged-in, the byline contains the name attached to the author's account and links to their account profile details. If the author specified a URL in the User Information section of his/her account, that URL is included beside their name.
If the author of the comment did not log in (or was logged in but chose to comment anonymously), the byline reads "by Anonymous".
Date and Time
The date and time (with time zone) when the comment was posted was posted appears immediately after the byline.
Permanent Link
This link takes you directly to the comment. It appears immediately after the byline and date and time.
Like the permanent link for an article, the permanent link isn't of much interest when you're reading the comment. It is provided so that you can link to the comment in your blog entries or provide the link to other people so that they can find it.
Body
This is the main text of the comment. It appears below the byline.
Depending on your settings, a comment may or may not contain HTML formatting. The second comment, "Re: Re: First Post!" contains HTML formatting -- the word "very" is in italics, and the word "BoingBoing" is linked to another web page.
Reply
Click this link to reply to the comment. It takes you to a page containing the comment and a form where you can enter your reply.
Note that this is not the same thing as replying to the article. To reply to the article, click the Post a comment link at the top of the Comments section.
