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Are you wondering how you can manage comments on WordPress? In this post, I will show you step-by-step on how to approve and edit comments.

How To Manage Comments On WordPress

Allowing comments on your art blog is a great way for your readers to have a discussion with you. Not only will you be able to learn more about your audience but the comments will also add extra value to your content.

Many times when people are done reading a post, they will scroll down to the comment section to see what other people have to say. This provides additional value to your audience.

Manage Comments On WordPress

To manage your comments, click on Comments on the left-hand sidebar of your WordPress Dashboard.

Here you will be able to view all comments, pending comments, approved comments, spam or trash.

Click the All on the top to view all comments.

Click the Pending link on the top to view only the pending comments.

Click the Approved link on the top to view only the approved comments.

Click the Spam link on the top to view all of the spam comments.

Click the Trash link on the top to view all of the comments moved to trash.

Edit Comments On WordPress

To edit comments, hover over the comment you would like to edit and click on the option you would like to perform. The options are unapprove/approve, reply, quick edit, edit, history, spam or trash.

Unapprove/approve comments at any time.

Reply – Allows you to reply to comments.

Edit – Allows you to edit name, email, URL, and comment.

History – Allows you to see the history of the comments.

Spam – Allows you to mark a comment as spam.

Trash – Allows you to trash a comment.

When you are done editing your comments click save.

Conclusion:

Allowing comments is a great way for you to get to know your audience.

Monitoring your comments is easy to do and comments should be reviewed weekly.

Are you having any difficulties on your WordPress blog? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section below.

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