At the November 2015 East Bay WordPress Meetup, we discussed comments on WordPress blogs, including when to enable comments, plugins to blog spam, third-party comment management systems, and plugins like Wheepl and Postmatic.

1. November 15, 2015

2. EastBayWP.com

3. Our Meetup.com Page
http://www.meetup.com/Eastbay-WordPress-Meetup/

4. Ongoing Sponsor: Pagely
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6. New Sponsor: A2 Hosting
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7. INTRODUCTIONS
1. Name
2. Company (if appropriate)
3. WordPress background
4. Do you use a commenting system?

8. GENERAL Q & A
Any and all questions about WordPress

9. COMMENTS IN WORDPRESS
Today’s topic

10. Assuming you want
comments…

11. Avoiding Spam 1
http://akismet.com/

12. Akismet Costs Money

13. More about Akismet
• Owned by Automattic
• Free for PERSONAL BLOGS ONLY
• Works with Jetpack Comments
• Works with Jetpack Contact Forms

14. Avoiding Spam 2
https://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-spam/

15. WP Native Comments

16. Jetpack Comments

17. Social Comments Plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-comments/

18. Facebook Comments
https://wordpress.org/plugins/comments-from-facebook/

19. LiveFyre
http://web.livefyre.com/

20. Disqus
https://disqus.com/

21. Postmatic
https://gopostmatic.com/

22. Wheepl
https://whee.pl/