Change comments to forward users to forums

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  wanderson75 · Member · Jun 17, 2011 at 12:06 pm

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  Hey there everyone. Kinda new guy here.

  I’ve installed the WP2BB plugin to automatically create forum threads on my community forum which is working great. But now I need to change the way commenting behaves. Instead of having the comment form, I’d like to just have a “Comment” button or something to send the viewer to the community forum to leave their comment. This way they become aware that there’s actually a community site for my website.

  Thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  supportbot · Member · Jun 17, 2011 at 12:06 pm

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  The blog you specified at wanderson75eta.net does not appear to be hosted at WordPress.com.

  This support forum is for blogs hosted at WordPress.com. If your question is about a self-hosted WordPress blog then you’ll find help at the WordPress.org forums.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 17, 2011 at 3:49 pm

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  If you are referring to the blog linked to your username then it’s free blog being free hosted by WordPress.com. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and we cannot install individual plugins into them.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

  Commenting is built into the core of WordPress. The setting at default Settings > Discussion will only affect future posts and pages. http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/

  Existing posts and pages will have to have their comments turned off manually. You can either do this on a post by post and page by page basis in the discussion module down below the text area in the post/page editor, or you can use the bulk edit feature to do multiple posts or pages.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  I’d like to just have a “Comment” button or something to send the viewer to the community forum to leave their comment. This way they become aware that there’s actually a community site for my website.

  There is no means that we can use to change the comment links on free hosted WordPress.com blogs so they direct to a third party site.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 17, 2011 at 3:51 pm

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  I’ve installed the WP2BB plugin to automatically create forum threads on my community forum which is working great.

  If you are referring to a free software install from WordPress.org for self hosting bloggers then you are posting to the wrong support forum. The support bot is pointing to where you need to go to get help with a WordPress.org install http://wordpress.org/support/

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  wanderson75 · Member · Jun 17, 2011 at 3:57 pm

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  yeah…it already did…reposted there. thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 17, 2011 at 3:58 pm

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  You’re welcome.