WordPress offers the ability to adjust and customize its platform at will, which allows for even a broader array of changes beyond what we’re discussing here. In here, we’ll be discussing the WordPress Comment Depth — what it is, what it means and why you should probably consider changing it. WordPress Comment depth refers to […]
WordPress comments are governed by the same setting as controls dates in all parts of the system, and can be accessed via the WP admin panel: Once there, scroll down to the Date Format section, where there are numerous choices available as defaults and a custom field where you can specify the date in exactly […]
Under certain circumstances, visitors may be trying to comment on a post of yours and receiving an error, “blocked as suspected bot error”. The first port of call might be to suspect that those visitors are on the blocked list / blacklist within WP-Admin or that their IP addresses are somehow on the bad lists […]
A blacklist is simply a list of people, email address or IP addresses which are considered not trustworthy and which should be prevented from commenting on your WordPress site. By using an established blacklist, you don’t have to go through the painful process of discovering each, one by one. A blacklist will save you time […]
We’ve got a massive section about WordPress performance, so be sure to check that out. However, when it comes to benchmarking, there are a few free tools out there that can be used for assessing site performance before going down the road of making changes to improve speeds. It’s always best to backup, test, tweak, […]
The use of avatars (small image representations that users pick to symbolize themselves) can add considerable personalization to a WordPress site, thereby increasing user engagement and enhancing the overall experience. One of the most popular ways of adding avatars to a WordPress site is in the comments section through the use of Gravatars. Gravatars, in […]
There are only about a million possible solutions to the problem of WordPress comments not appearing. However, there are only a handful of very common solutions to this problem. You’ve Used Pages Instead of Posts By default, WordPress doesn’t show comment forms on pages, only on posts. You can check this by logging into your […]
As a default behavior, WordPress will automatically set all URLs in post comments to be rel=”nofollow”. This is one way of reducing spam submissions, given that search engines may not give any value to outbound links which have this markup. If it has no SEO value, there’s little incentive for spam comments. There are occasions […]
When someone visits your WordPress comments section, they become commenters. As a commenter, a visitor will get 3 distinct cookies set on their local machine so that with each WordPress comment they don’t have to re-enter their name, email and URL over and over again. The 3 cookies are: By default, WordPress comments cookies should last for […]
WordPress has a number of conditional tags that evaluate whether something is true or false, then based on the logical value, does one thing or another. Generally, if something is true take action, otherwise do not, then return to whatever it was doing. A simple example of a conditional tag in WordPress would be to […]