Friends Not wanting to register on WordPress

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  getvickiwatson · Member · Jan 23, 2014 at 5:18 pm

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  My friends don’t want to sign up or register with WordPress in order to “like”, “follow” or “comment” on my blog. Is there any way around this?

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

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  getvickiwatson · Member · Jan 23, 2014 at 5:19 pm

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  My friends don’t want to sign up or register with WordPress in order to “like”, “follow” or “comment” on my blog. Is there any way around this?

  The blog I need help with is faith4theday.wordpress.com.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 23, 2014 at 5:24 pm

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  I’m so sorry they are unable to cope with the reality that in house follow and like button use here and everywhere else like Facebook is the same here ie. only for use of registered and logged in members.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 23, 2014 at 5:26 pm

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  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:

  These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
  Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.

  Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.

  Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

  You can customize the contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  Discussion Settings
  Other comment settings
  _Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
  _Users must be registered and logged in to comment

  Note that the prompt to submit and email address and a website URL will still appear, but providing an email address and logging in are not required, and you cannot change this so the prompt does not appear.

  You can post instructions for your visitors in a text widget if you wish to set up anonymous commenting. That’s easy to do. You copy and paste this into a text widget:

  Readers: Note that the email address and logging in prompts do appear for comments on this blog, but providing an email address and logging in are not required.

  P.S. Do be sure to set up full comment moderation ie. “An administrator must always approve the comment” because anonymous commenting is bound to increase the amount of spam your blog will receive.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation