Setting up & Managing Blog Comments

Blog comments are small pieces of text (400 characters maximum) with the name of the comment author, and they can be attached to each of your blog items.

To enable the comments, open Blogs menu from the Themechef.com Website Administration Panel

Once the window pops up, you will find the General Blog Configuration button, at the top right of the Blog window (as shown below)

Once you click on the "Paper & Pen" icon, the Comment Control Panel will appear. The latter has 3 options:

• Enable Blog Comments: enables the blog comments module for your website's blog
• Allow anonymous posting: allows posts with name = Anonymous (otherwise it forces for another name)
• Administration Approval Required: all comments are comitted but unpublished, until the website administrator (*you*) approves them.

After you save your options, and enable the Blog Comments module, the Blogs page will reload, and a new icon will appear next to the "edit blog item" button, on each blog item row. This icon is the "manage comments for current blog post" button.

Clicking this icon brings up the Blog Post Comments dialog. In this dialog, you can approve/disapprove or delete an already posted comment. To publish/unpublish a comment, simply click on the red/green circle, which indicates whether the comment is published or not. To delete it, click on the Delete icon.