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title: "Product Demo: Commenting Feature"
description: "Learn to manage comments on your website: enable site-wide settings, toggle individual posts, and moderate entries to build an engaged community."
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March 17, 2026
# Product Demo: Commenting Feature
## Learn to manage comments on your website: enable site-wide settings, toggle individual posts, and moderate entries to build an engaged community.
### **How to Use and Manage Comments on Your Website**
Engaging with your audience through a comment section is a great way to build community. This guide will walk you through how to enable, manage, and moderate comments on your website.
#### **Enabling or Disabling Comments Site-Wide**
To turn the commenting feature on or off for your entire site:
- Navigate to **Site Options** in the left-hand sidebar.
- Select **Integrations**.
- Use the toggle switch to turn comments on or off.
#### **Managing Comments at the Post Level**
Even if comments are enabled site-wide, you have control over individual posts:
- In the post editor, look at the right sidebar under **Post** and then **Discussion**.
- Choose to keep comments **Open** or **Closed** for that specific post.
- **If a post has no comments:** Closing comments will hide the comment section entirely.
- **If a post already has comments:** Closing comments will keep existing comments visible but will display a "Comments are closed" message and disable the submission form.
#### **Automatic Comment Closing and Spam Prevention**
- By default, comments automatically close on posts older than 14 days to help prevent spam.
- This timeframe can be adjusted in your settings.
#### **The Reader Experience**
When a reader wants to leave a comment:
- They must provide a **name**, **email address**, and their **comment**.
- They have the option to save their details in their browser for future comments.
- After submitting, readers will see a message stating their comment is "awaiting moderation" along with a preview of their post.
#### **Moderating Comments**
To manage the comments submitted by your readers:
- Go to the **Comments** tab in the left-hand sidebar.
- From this moderation section, you can hover over individual comments to **approve**, **edit**, **delete**, or **mark them as spam**.
- For multiple comments, use the **Bulk Actions** menu at the top to approve or delete several items at once.
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