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Moderating Comments

Lesson 23 from: WordPress for Photographers

Justin Seeley

Moderating Comments

Lesson 23 from: WordPress for Photographers

Justin Seeley

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Lesson Info

23. Moderating Comments

Lessons

Class Trailer

Day 1

1

What Can WordPress Do?

07:49
2

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

10:41
3

Domains and Hosting

08:14
4

Domains Q&A

10:00
5

Demo: 1-Click Install on HostGator

08:53
6

Audience Q&A

38:03
7

WordPress Dashboard Oveview

32:31
8

WordPress Dashboard: Settings

33:22
9

Audience Q&A

03:42
10

Working with Posts

33:44
11

Working with Pages

30:46
12

Audience Q&A

34:57
13

Using WordPress Plug-ins

44:26
14

WordPress Themes

27:13
15

Final Q&A

04:05

Day 2

16

Managing Your Media

35:20
17

Managing Your Media Q&A

05:48
18

Working with Video

09:39
19

Top 5 Photo Plug-ins

19:57
20

Top 5 Themes for Video

13:56
21

Top 5 Video Plug-ins

10:37
22

Creating a Discussion

09:53
23

Moderating Comments

12:26
24

Creating Ratings and Polls

11:27
25

Purchasing a Theme

17:58
26

Customizing a Theme

08:23
27

Editing Code for Non-Geeks

24:54
28

Customizing Themes Q&A

07:43
29

CSS Crash Course

24:15
30

Using the WordPress Codex

13:13
31

Creating and Using Menus

08:28
32

Lightbox Plugins

13:13
33

WordPress Codex, Menus and Plugins Q&A

08:43
34

General WordPress Q&A

10:17
35

Optimizing Images for the Web in Photoshop

32:30
36

Optimizing Images Q&A

10:56
37

Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web

11:35

Day 3

38

Protecting Images Online

22:06
39

Adding Watermarks

17:56
40

Copywriting Images

08:40
41

SEO 101

24:00
42

Engaging Your Audience

05:26
43

URL Shortening

09:54
44

Exporting/Importing WordPress Data

10:33
45

Backing Up WordPress

13:26
46

Security 101

24:20
47

Spotting Trustworthy Themes/Plugins

24:32
48

Trustworthy Themes/Plugins Q&A

21:13
49

Battling Spam

18:38
50

Dealing with a Hacked Site

15:41
51

Protecting Your Site

10:46
52

Using Web Fonts

24:08
53

Web Fonts Q&A

11:36
54

Thanks + Credits

04:04
55

Monetizing Your Content

24:55
56

Final Q&A

28:31

Lesson Info

Moderating Comments

I'm gonna need a little help from the audience and a little help from the internet. So if you would please go to the site that I'm working on right now, shutter click dot com. And this is gonna be kind of a roll of the dice here, But why not go to any one of these posts and just start posting some comments? All right. Just post anything. Not anything you want post something nice. Um, you know, just anything you wanna post, and I'm gonna walk you through moderating comments inside of WordPress. So when we get a couple of comments, I'm sure there's some that have already come through. Let's go to the dashboard here. Not yet. We'll see. There's a little delay with the Internet and ah ha live. So 40 seconds, C four comments. All right, here we go. So I've got a couple of comments already loaded in here, and I'm sure they'll keep coming in. But once you start getting comments by default, the comments are in a queue, meaning you have to go in and approve them. I'm gonna show you how to set u...

p your options. So if you want people to just have free range over your comments, by the way, that's dangerous. But if you want people to be able to do that, you can do that. So right here in the settings on the left, I'm gonna go here and go down to discussion, okay? And in the discussion with several different, um, settings. So the default article settings. All right. Um, do you allow people to post comments on new articles? You uncheck that box that automatically turns it off for all new posts? I don't recommend that necessarily. Because you want to create the discussion, writes what you want. But if you you know, I showed you yesterday how to turn comments on and off, I'll show you that again in just a minute. Other commenting settings comment Author must fill out name and email. That's a great way to kind of help alleviate the spam problem. You know, you can also say that users must be registered and logged in to comment. I think that's kind of a a mean thing, dio, um, because everybody's gonna know how to register for a WordPress site. If you don't provide a link to register for your site, they're not gonna know how to do it. So I don't usually do that unless I'm running a membership site per se, automatically coz close comments on articles older than X Number of days if you want, you know, to keep your site always fresh and because I get comments on articles I wrote, like two years ago. Like people like a tutorial. I did literally. Almost three years ago, somebody posted a comment in there like, Well, this doesn't work in like the current version of the software will. No doubt it was three years ago. I mean, they've updated suffer, like, 10 times since then. So, you know, and I hate to have to go in there and, you know, answer stuff like that. So I like to turn that on for stuff, you know? I mean, I answered the question simply because, you know, I still allowed comments on that post, but I went immediately closed. The comments after that enable threaded or nested comments. If your theme supports it. This is a great feature toe have because that means that your comments will be staggered to kind of show the progression of the conversation. So you could see. Okay, here's the top comment. Here's where somebody replied to it. Here's where somebody replied to them them and so forth. If your theme supports it, that's great. A lot of modern themes do. Older themes probably won't okay, break comments into pages. If you feel like you've written a block post, that's just going to erupt. Like for instance, here I've got 49 comments already in there. Just a short time that we've been talking, and so you know that's gonna take a lot of space. I might break the comments up into 10 page increments. If you do that, it will put a little Page Nation thing at the bottom, where people can click to go through each page of the comments. You see that a lot on the big time Tech blog's These days, Um, email me whenever anyone posts a comment or when a common has held for moderation. This is a great one, because you'll get an email to your email account saying, Hey, so and so opposed to the comment. Here's what it says. It will also have links in the email that says approve spam, trash, blah, blah, blah. When you click on those links, it'll take you to your WordPress site. On whatever device? Are you know, computer, you're on. You will have to log in. Okay. Doesn't just auto log you in. But then it will take you immediately to the screen where the comment is, and you can, you know, get rid of it. All right. Before a comment appears, an administrator must always approve the comment. Yep, I always check down because I'm usually they admit him by sight. I don't want anybody else approving comments but me because it's my message. I want to control it. Hold a comment in the queue for how, if it contains more than two links so you know somebody's coming to you, spamming you or whatever. You can actually control how many links are allowed to put in there. You can also say if if a comment contains any of these words, so, you know, popular advertising terms products that you get spammed for If you find you know, people are spending, you've constantly for, you know, whatever it might be, you can type out all those terms there. You can also come down here in blacklist. Certain comments you know, curse words. Whatever you want to put down there, you can blacklist those. We talked about this yesterday. Avatar display. Do you want to show avatars? What's the maximum rating? What's the default avatar that you use once you've finished setting all these up and I made a couple changes, some to go ahead and click save changes. And now most of the you know most of the comments that come in Now, we'll have to adhere to those comments that are already posted. Unfortunately, you know, it's kind of retroactive, but now you can see this, uh, Ian Spears. That comment is fantastic. That's all I'm going to say. I won't read it out loud, but so all right, when we get this que going weaken. Moderate. This from the front end of Excuse me from the dashboard here. We can also moderate it from the comments screen if we want to. All right. So if I want to go through there and I want to start approving comments, I'm gonna go and hit the approved button. The approved button is green by default and the nugget like that, it's approved that that comment is now live on my site. Same way for this one. I'll approve it. I can also go through here and click all of them. Now, I'm hoping nobody has posted anything back. Some about to approve all of these at once. Um, but anyway, we're gonna go through, and we're going to approve all of them at once. Bam! Okay. And so there we go, and I'm not sure what this is, but we're gonna let's say this one, You know, it looks kind of long, and I don't really know what they're talking about. So we're just gonna go ahead and let spam this one. Sorry if if I spammed you, but I just want to prove a point that I could spend you. And so now, once that comment is in the spam, theoretically, if that person comes through with that same email address or would have you they're not gonna get through the automatically be moved to the spam folder. A kiss Met is a great plug in for monitoring. That's the one I talked about yesterday and actually have a casement running right now on my site. And I went and got the a p I key. So Everything's running good. Here's more comments here. If I go through, I can just, you know, select approve. Everybody gets approved. Select these right here. So it's really quite easy to moderate comments inside of WordPress. All right, All right. There you go. All right, So eight questions about working with or moderating comments so far, the question that is, how can you post a comment from your blog's to Google Plus was from Leonia to your block from Google. Plus well, you have to use the mere blocks from your block to Google. Plus okay, you'll have Teoh find a plug in. That doesn't. I'm sure there is one. I haven't set one up personally it because I'm still kind of new to Google Plus, but just search for Google Plus in the directory. And I would search for, like, post like Google plus post or something. And so here we go Google plus cross posting import your public activities on Google plus into your WordPress post, and it creates opposed for each Google plus activity you've posted. Um, that's pretty cool. I mean, there's all kinds of things you confined, so I would just I would just look for that. Here's another good one. You can install the Google plus one widget, so when you install that, it adds a little plus one to the bottom of your block post. I installed that all mine the other day. I was amazed at how many people started, plus wanting stuff on my block. I mean, really, I have more. Like I said the other day, I have more followers on Google, plus than I do any other social network at this point. So that says a lot for that network. All right, more questions from futures photos. If you have a same you purchase that already allows people to like your poster Facebook. But then you add this type of Facebook plug in. Does that possibly wreck functionality of the theme? Um, there's a lot of things that go into that, so I can't really answer that straight out, but I would say off the top of my head, probably not. It'll just have multiple points of liking, so it shouldn't be too bad. And a question from Claire are a one of our regulars. Is there a way to mark something a spam and have it automatically deleted at the same time or bend is that also delete feature. You can set up a kiss meant to automatically delete things that have been in the spam for X number of days, so that will that will take care of that. And you can also, you know, find other plug ins. And kiss Meant doesn't really well. But off the top in WordPress, no, there's no way to do that. Question from High and Mr Arlene. I've heard that you can install a kismet for all sites for all site in your multi site by adding code to the WordPress configure PHP Does that work? I've never tried it myself. Um, generally, when I'm running a WordPress multi site, what I'll do is you know you can, uh, pay for a kiss mitt, which I recommend paying for Kiss Mitt. Let's, um, and you by the license accordingly. And then, basically, you can network activate the plug in and WordPress multi site, and it will go across all your sites. So, question of the onions, how much should we pay for plug ins? What's reasonable and what's unreasonable? That is a very good question. Um, I would say that It's like the APP store. There's no, you know, because there's some absolutely app store. They're 99 cents their some of their free. Some of the free ones are better than the paid ones. It's the same way with WordPress. Plug in. Some of the free ones are better than the paid ones. Um, in general, I have never paid over $100 for a plugging period. I don't know that there are that many that are over $100. There are a couple of bundles that are over 100 which I think are more than worth it, because stand alone those plug ins to me would be worth, you know, their weight in gold. So it just depends on a how bad you need it. And, b, how much you have to spend. Um, you know it, Really, it's that's way too hard to nail down because it just depends on playing. Um, on that point, I've I've heard that certain free themes and possibly plug ins as well, uh, have malicious code in them. Absolutely. So can you talk about that at all? And how did maybe that are the problem if it's in the WordPress plugging directory. You're usually safe. If it's if it's in the official WordPress directory, it is probably safe because been vetted? Absolutely. So if you're looking for free things, look in the WordPress name directory in the WordPress. Plug in directory. Don't look online for free WordPress stuff like that. That's a great tip. Yeah. And another thing is because you confined. You know, these themes that are for sale, you can find them on torrent sites. And what have you? Um, I'm not advocating that it'll, but at the same time, people can download those themselves, inject malicious code into a good theme and then give it away for free. And then you're done. So, you know, if somebody charges for it and you want it, I would just say Go for it. You know, if you can spare the money and then get your stuff from the official directory, if at all possible, I would. I'll talk about some companies I recommend later to for free stuff

Class Materials

bonus material with enrollment

WordpressSlides.pdf
wp_seo_101.pdf

Ratings and Reviews

a Creativelive Student
 

I watched all three days of the course. I am a photographer. The course was titled WordPress for Photographers. Only about 5% of the course was tailored to photographers. Most of the content and discussion was for pro website consultants and bloggers. That aside, Mr. Seeley is so well versed in what he knows well. Imagine sitting in front of the camera for 3 straight days remaining articulate and very professional! The class was really presented for bloggers, not photographers. An example of this is on day 3 where the presenter, after talking about photographers' concerns for an hour or two, said he wanted to transition out of photography into blogging. The class seemed short on the type of content that photographers need. It would have served photographers better if the students present in the studio were all photographers. Discussions on watermarking, photo file size and image theft/copyright infringement showed that Mr. Seeley's background in the needs of photographers is lacking, while his expertise in graphics and web design are VERY impressive. Too much of the class time was devoted to answering narrowly focused tech support questions from people other than photographers. It was a wonderful class for the audience that hijacked it, but it should have been titled and described differently if it was intended for web-blog designers. I really liked the energy, humor, and expertise of Mr. Seeley but the class was too-often off-mission. On day 1, it would have been very productive to show a photographer's WP website that was esthetically beautiful and had all the bells and whistles photographers are looking for. Then explain how you get from nothing to the final website using WordPress. That would have met the needs of pro photographers!

Shannon
 

Justin is an excellent presenter. He's easy to listen to and it's obvious he knows his stuff. As a presenter/trainer, I really appreciated his ability to stick with his outline while he fielded questions, both off and on topic. It takes some balancing to do that. He was good at noting questions that were too far afield and I think he actually answered all of them by the end of the three days. I would definitely attend more classes presented by him. Thanks, Justin and CreativeLIVE.

a Creativelive Student
 

Amazing class! Superb presentation! Justin kept the technical geek-speak to a minimal and made the entire class easy to understand and fun! I think this class should be called Wordpress for the Non-Geek! (As others have said there was not a lot of information specific to photographers, but when it was referenced there was great examples and information provided!)

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