Managing Comments and Trackbacks

When you invite readers to comment on your site, you, as the site admin-
istrator, have full access to manage and edit those comments through the
Comments page, which you can access on your WordPress Dashboard.
To find your comments, click the Comments link on the Comments menu; the Comments page opens.

 

When you hover over a comment with your mouse, several links appear that give you the opportunity to manage the comment:

✦ Unapprove: This link appears only if you have comment moderation
turned on. Also, it appears only on approved comments. The comment
is placed in the moderation queue, which you can get to by clicking the
Pending link that appears below the Comments page header. The moder-
ation queue is kind of a holding area for comments that haven’t yet been
published to your blog.
✦ Reply: Makes a text box drop down, where you can type and submit
your reply to this person. This feature eliminates the need to load your live site in order to reply to a comment.

✦ Quick Edit: Opens the comment options inline, without ever leaving

the Comments page. You can configure options such as name, e-mail
address, URL, and comment content. Click the Save button to save your
changes.
✦ Edit: Opens the Edit Comment page, where you can edit the different
fields, such as name, e-mail address, URL, and comment content
✦ Spam: Marks the comment as spam and marks it as spam in the data-
base, where it will never be heard from again! (Actually, it’s stored in the database as spam; you just don’t see it in your comments list unless you click the Spam link at the top of the Comments page.)
✦ Trash: This link does exactly what it says; it sends the comment to the
trash can and deletes it from your blog. You can access comments that
have been sent to the trash to permanently delete them from your blog,
or restore them.

If you have a lot of comments listed on the Comments page and want to bulk-

edit them, select the check boxes to the left of all the comments you want to
manage; then select one of the following from the Bulk Actions drop-down
list at the top left of the page: Approve, Mark as Spam, Unapprove, or Delete