Wix Blog: Managing Comments for Your Posts
4 min
In this article
- Enabling or disabling comments for all posts
- Enabling or disabling comments for a specific post
- Deleting a comment on a post
- Moderating comments using Wix Functions
Improve engagement on your blog by enabling your community to add comments to your posts. Visitors can also edit their comments, add media to them, reply to other comments, 'like' comments, and sort comments to show the newest or oldest first.
You can choose to only allow your site members to add comments, or let site visitors comment on posts as guests without needing to sign up. By enabling moderation, you can ensure comments are automatically screened before they are published on your site, giving you full control over the discussion.
Comments are enabled on your posts by default. Blog owners, admins, and editors can enable, disable, and delete comments for any post on your blog. Writers can only manage comments for their own posts. Learn more about roles and permissions
Important:
- You may be legally responsible for any comments on your site that are the subject of criminal activity, including hate speech, racism, sexism, etc.
- Visitors who guest comment will be able to comment without accepting your site's terms of use, if it has any.
- Visitors who guest comment are still subject to any moderation rules you set up using Wix Functions.
Enabling or disabling comments for all posts
You can enable or disable comments for all of your blog posts directly from your dashboard.
To enable or disable commenting for all posts:
- Go to Blog in your site's dashboard.
- Click the More Actions drop-down.
- Click Blog settings.
- Enable or disable the Comments toggle.
- Choose who can leave comments on your blog posts:
- Members only: Only members can leave comments on your blog posts.
- Everyone: Anyone that visits your site can leave a comment.
Note: You may see more spam with this option. This is why the ability to upload images within comments is limited to Members only.
- Click the Ratings toggle to enable or disable star ratings on your comments.
Tip:
Enable the comments counter in the Display tab to show the number of comments in your posts.
Enabling or disabling comments for a specific post
You can enable or disable comments for a specific post from your dashboard.
To enable and disable comments for a specific post:
- Go to Blog in your site's dashboard.
- Click the Posts tab.
- Click Edit next to the relevant post.
- Click Settings in the panel on the left.
- Enable or disable the Allow commenting on this post toggle.
- Click Publish.
Deleting a comment on a post
You can delete post comments from the live version of your blog on your site.
To delete a comment:
- Go to your blog on your live site.
- Log in using the email address associated with your Wix account.
- Click the More Actions icon next to the comment you want to delete.
- Click Delete.
next to the comment you want to delete.
Moderating comments using Wix Functions
Moderating comments allows you to manage the interactions on your blog posts, ensuring that discussions remain respectful and relevant. You can create a function to automatically approve, reject, or mark comments for moderation before they are published to your site.
Important:
All comments, including guest comments, are subject to moderation only when a function is created to mark comments for moderation before they are published to your site.
To moderate comments:
- Go to Functions in your site's dashboard.
- Create a function from scratch. Learn how to create a function from scratch.
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