User-Friendly Permalinks Comment Settings Manage Comments Do You Need Comments? No matter how you setup comments on a website, they cause problems. - spam - security vulnerabilities - lack of engagement Do you really need comments to serve your audience? - What Value Do Commenters Add? - When was the last time you read an article and thought, the comments really added to that conversation? - When this does happen, is the content of the site actually valuable? - Do you want to have a site where the comments are more valuable than the content? Making The Best Of WordPress Comments - Do not use the native comments feature in WordPress. - Use social comments (Comments Evolved for WordPress). - Give commenters the option to use Facebook or Google+ logins when commenting, maybe include Disqus as well. - Turn off comments on pages and restrict comments to posts.

1. Get Readers On WordPress
User-Friendly Permalinks, Comment Settings, Manage Comments

2. What We Will Cover
1. User-Friendly Permalinks
2. Comment Settings
3. Manage Comments

3. User-Friendly Permalinks

4. What Are Permalinks?
A permalink is a URL that points to a specific web page, often a blog or forum
entry which has passed from the front page to the archives, or the result of a
search in a database.

5. Good And Bad Permalinks
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6. Comment Settings

7. Do You Need Comments?
No matter how you setup comments on a website, they cause problems.
● spam
● security vulnerabilities
● lack of engagement
Do you really need comments to serve your audience?

8. What Value Do Commenters Add?
When was the last time you read an article and thought, the comments really
added to that conversation?
When this does happen, is the content of the site actually valuable?
Do you want to have a site where the comments are more valuable than the
content?

9. Manage Comments

10. Making The Best Of WordPress Comments
1. Do not use the native comments feature in WordPress.
2. Use social comments (Comments Evolved for WordPress).
3. Give commenters the option to use Facebook or Google+ logins when
commenting, maybe include Disqus as well.
4. Turn off comments on pages and restrict comments to posts.

11. Questions?
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