Enable Commenting for Simple Blog

Simple Blog has a commenting feature that lets your visitor leave comments below individual blog posts.

 

 

Visitors can interact with you through your blog posts with comments. Here's how: 

 

Enable Commenting

1. Go to your site editor, click "SETTINGS" and find "BLOG".

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2. Click "Blog Settings".

3. Check "Enable comments".

After you've enabled Comments, you can also enable the option to approve comments before comments get posted by checking off "Comments require approval".

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Your visitors will see a comment section at the bottom of each blog post. The comment thread will show like this: 

 

The blog section will display the number of comments for each post: 

 

Manage Comments 

You'll receive an email every time a visitor comments on the blog.

If you've set up the "Comments require approval" option, you'll receive an email notification to review the blog comments. 

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Your reader will see her comment is pending approval. 

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You can manage your blog comments on either your desktop and mobile device. Clicking [APPROVE] or any of the buttons in the email will take you to the blog post editor to take the action: 

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Note:

For the Pro users who have been using our Disqus integration for your blog, no changes will be made to your Disqus account and blog settings. You also do have the option to enable the new comments feature - enable by checking the "Enable comments" option, and deleting your Disqus shortname. 

 

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