WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Why can not non-registered people comment on my blog? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-can-not-non-registered-people-comment-on-my-blog WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Why can not non-registered people comment on my blog? en Thu, 23 May 2013 10:53:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 omppuzet on "Why can not non-registered people comment on my blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-can-not-non-registered-people-comment-on-my-blog#post-1068123 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:32:10 +0000 omppuzet 1068123@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you. Problem solved. I didn't realize that the email and url fields appear anyway.

]]> timethief on "Why can not non-registered people comment on my blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-can-not-non-registered-people-comment-on-my-blog#post-1068077 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:42:11 +0000 timethief 1068077@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

Discussion Settings
Other comment settings
_Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
_Users must be registered and logged in to comment

Note that the prompt to submit and email address and a website URL will still appear but providing an email address and logging in are not required.

You can post instructions for your visitors in a text widget if you wish. That's easy to do. You copy and paste this into a text widget:

Readers: Note that the email address and logging in prompts do appear for comments on this blog, but providing an email address and logging in are not required.

See here and read about how to set up a text widget. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

P.S. Currently over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to WordPress.com blogs every day are spam. Be sure to set up full comment moderation ie. "An administrator must always approve the comment" because anonymous commenting is bound to increase the amount of spam your blog will receive.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

]]> omppuzet on "Why can not non-registered people comment on my blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-can-not-non-registered-people-comment-on-my-blog#post-1068036 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:31:05 +0000 omppuzet 1068036@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have diabled "Comment author must fill out name" and "e-mail and Users must be registered and logged in to comment" in the Discussion Settings but still non-registered people can not send comments on my blog. What is wrong?

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