WordPress Add Comments

In this chapter, we will learn how to add comments in WordPress. Adding comments allows your visitors to discuss with you. Comments are approved by the administrator and then published for further discussion.

Following are the steps to add comments to your blog posts.

Step (1) – Click Pages->All Pages in WordPress.

Step (2) – On the following screen, a list of pages created in WordPress will be displayed. Select any page to which you want to add comments. Here, we will add comments to the About Us page. Click on About Us .

Step (3) – To add comments to this page, click on Screen Options at the top right corner of the page.

Step (4) − A drop-down list of screen options is displayed. Check the boxes for Discussion and Comments as shown in the screen below.

Step (5) – Now you can view the discussion and comments box at the bottom of the page.

In the discussion section, there are two options:

• Allow Comments – Allow visitors to comment on your blog posts and pages.

• Allow trackbacks and tracking on this page – Allow visitors to post trackbacks and track.

In the comment section, you can add comments by clicking the Add Comment button.

Step (6) – After adding the comment box, click the Update button.