Interacting with Readers through Comments

People can leave notes for you that are published to your site, and you can
respond and engage your readers in conversation about the topic at hand
(refer to Figure 5-1 and Figure 5-2). Having this function in your blog cre-
ates the opportunity to expand the thoughts and ideas that you present in
your blog post by giving your readers the opportunity to share their own
thoughts.
In the WordPress Dashboard, you have full administrative control over who

can and can’t leave comments. In addition, if someone leaves a comment
that has questionable content, you can edit the comment or delete it. You’re
also free to disallow comments on your blog. The Discussion Settings page
in your Dashboard contains all the settings for allowing, or disallowing, com-
ments on your site; flip back to Book III, Chapter 3 to dig into those settings,
what they mean, and how you can use them to configure the exact interac-
tive environment that you want for your site.