{"id":690,"date":"2018-08-10T01:07:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T01:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/?page_id=690"},"modified":"2018-08-11T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T14:21:43","slug":"adding-a-comments-form-to-the-bottom-of-your-wordpress-pages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/first-steps-to-building-your-wordpress-website\/adding-a-comments-form-to-the-bottom-of-your-wordpress-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a Comments Form to the Bottom of Your WordPress Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"Last updated: August 11, 2018 at 14:21 pm\n

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Before we begin this lesson, I’d like to notify you that between the last lesson and this one, I went ahead and added some pages to my hotel website without creating a tutorial for them. This is because you already know how to create pages and it would be a little bit too repetitive. This will happen from time to time, so don’t be alarmed if you see changes to my site to which you weren’t alerted.<\/p>\n

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Now let’s go on with the next lesson: Adding a Comments Form to Your WordPress Pages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A website is a great tool. It allows you to talk to your visitors through each webpage. But that’s just half the fun.<\/p>\n

A website becomes “interactive” when your visitors can talk back to you. Of course, you’d be amazed to hear people’s response to your stories.<\/p>\n

Of course, visitors can always contact you by email, phone and other methods on your contact page. But it’s so much sweeter and easier when they can just type a comment at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

A beautiful, handy comments form makes this possible. Comments encourage discussion, and many people responding to each other. With comments, visitors become “invested” in your site and are more likely to return.<\/p>\n

In addition, comment forms make it possible or users to add to your message, and even enrich with their knowledge of the subject.<\/p>\n

There’s a thousand and one reason why your web pages should be outfitted a comments form at the bottom.<\/p>\n

But so far, our web pages have no comments form, and that’s something we need to include.<\/p>\n

So let’s do this.<\/p>\n

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This is how our webpages have closing: with no comments for the user to ask a question, add to the message, start a discussion or anything like that.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, WordPress has made it easy for us to add a comments for to our websites. By default it ins’t there, but by tweaking a few settings, we can simply add it.<\/p>\n

So let’s do this. Let’s log into our Dashboard by typing hotelamazonasgy.com\/wp-admin\/, typing in our username and password and hitting the Login Button.<\/p>\n

Once inside the Dashboard, let’s find the page we want to add a comment form to by clicking the “Pages >> All Pages” button on the left column menu.<\/p>\n

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Once you click on the “Pages >> All Pages” button, you’ll see a list of the pages you have created for your WordPress site.<\/p>\n

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I’ll choose to add a comments form to the homepage of my website.<\/p>\n

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First, I hover my mouse over the link, and an “Edit” button appears. I click the “Edit” button and a new window loads for me to edit this page.<\/p>\n

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So how do I add a comments form to this page? If you look towards the top right of the screen, you will see a “Screen Options” button.<\/p>\n

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Click the down arrow next to that button and it will open up.<\/p>\n

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There you will see some of the screen options offered when creating\u00a0 a WordPress Page. Some of them were ticked by default with the new WordPress Installation.<\/p>\n

However, the “comments” and “discussion” options weren’t ticked by default. We need to tick these by clicking the checkbox next to them.<\/p>\n

So let’s do this!<\/p>\n

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There you go! Now collapse these settings options by clicking the up arrow near to the Screen Options Button.<\/p>\n

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Now let’s scroll and see these new features appearing towards the bottom of our page.<\/p>\n

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There you go! An option for allowing comments as well as “trackbacks and pingbacks” on your page.<\/p>\n

I’ll tick them both!<\/p>\n

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There you go! So now let’s update our page!<\/p>\n

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And view our update.<\/p>\n

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Now let’s scroll to the bottom and see if our comments form appears there.<\/p>\n

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And what do you know! It did!<\/p>\n

Bear in the mind that on a browser where you’re logged into WordPress, the comment form will appear different. If you want to see the form exactly as foreign visitors will see it, load this page from a different browser where you’re not logged in to WordPress. For example, if you’re building your WordPress site on a Firefox Browser, you can view updates on an Internet Explorer browser.<\/p>\n

This is how the form looks to visitors other than you when you’re logged in:<\/p>\n

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OK, so I’ll go ahead and add these comments form to all other pages on the website except for the “Privacy Policy” page which doesn’t need a comments form.<\/p>\n

Bear in mind that we’ll have to talk about Comments Spam which you will get A LOT on your WordPress website. Also bear in mind that we will have to enhance this form using a plugin called WP Discus.<\/p>\n

So now that we have a site, with the basic features and pages, let’s go testing out some WordPress Themes to see if you we can find something better to display our website.<\/p>\n

So see you in the next lesson: Testing Out Some WordPress Themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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