SayPro Discussion Setting

The Discussion Settings in WordPress control how your site handles comments, pingbacks, and notifications for blog posts or pages. These settings are important for managing community interaction, reducing spam, and improving user experience.

📌 How to Access Discussion Settings

1. Log in to your WordPress Dashboard.
2. Go to Settings > Discussion.

🛠️ WordPress Discussion Settings Explained

1. Default Post Settings

These options control whether posts allow comments and link notifications.

• ✅ Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the post
  • Sends a pingback to other blogs you link to, letting them know you linked to them.
• ✅ Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)
  • Allows you to receive pingbacks from other sites that link to your posts.
• ✅ Allow people to submit comments on new posts
  • Enables or disables comments globally for new posts.
  • Note: You can still override this setting on a per-post basis.

2. Other Comment Settings

• ✅ Comment author must fill out name and email
  • Helps prevent anonymous spam comments.
• ✅ Users must be registered and logged in to comment
  • Useful if you want to restrict comments to members only.
• ⏱️ Automatically close comments on posts older than X days
  • Disables comments on old posts to reduce spam and moderation workload.
• 🔁 Enable threaded (nested) comments X levels deep
  • Allows replies to comments up to a certain depth (e.g., 3 levels).
• 📄 Break comments into pages…
  • Paginate long comment sections for better performance and readability.
• 🔝 Comments should be displayed with the older/newer comments at the top
  • Choose the order of comment display.

3. Email Me Whenever

• ✅ Anyone posts a comment
  • Sends an email when a new comment is submitted.
• ✅ A comment is held for moderation
  • You’ll be notified when a comment is awaiting approval.

4. Before a Comment Appears

• ✅ Comment must be manually approved
  • Hold all comments for review before they appear on your site.
• ✅ Comment author must have a previously approved comment
  • Automatically approves comments from users who’ve had a comment approved before.

5. Comment Moderation and Blacklist

• Comment Moderation: Automatically holds comments in moderation if they contain a set number of links (a common spam indicator) or specific words.
• Disallowed Comment Keys: Instantly marks comments as spam if they include blacklisted keywords, IPs, or email addresses.

6. Avatars (Profile Pictures)

• ✅ Show Avatars: Enables avatars next to commenter names.
• Maximum Rating: Set the allowed avatar rating (G, PG, R, X).
• Default Avatar: Choose a default image for users who don’t have a custom avatar (e.g., Mystery Person, Gravatar Logo, Identicon).

✅ Recommended Discussion Settings for Most Sites

🧰 Tools for Comment Management

• Akismet Anti-Spam: Automatically filters spam comments.
• Disable Comments Plugin: Allows you to turn off comments site-wide.
• wpDiscuz or Jetpack Comments: Enhance comment features with threading, likes, and social login.