How Do I Get My Visitors To Register?
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I am in the early stages of designing my blog. I want to require all visitors to register before they can comment or submit posts.
I was hoping for a feature within the blog program that would offer the following features:
1. Display a link to register.
2. The register link would display a form where the visitor could enter an email address,
username and a password for registration.
3. Then the visitor would receive a reply stating that the registration was received and
would be under review.
4. Administrator would receive the request for the registration and have the option to
to accept or deny the registration.
5. If the registration is denied, the visitor would receive an email with an explanation.
6. If the registration is accepted, the visitor would receive an email stating he/she was
accepted and could begin posting and commenting using their desired username and password.If such a feature is not available or something similar to this, how does a visitor login without a valid username and password?
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I don’t know if this type of service is available or not, it may be…..but using it will put off most from commenting at all. You can moderate each comment to make sure it’s not insulting, swearing etc. For people to give an active live email out they have to trust that you’re not going to abuse it and spam them……would you give out an email just to comment on a blog? I wouldn’t.
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Dirk,
Thanks for the reply.
Here’s what I’m referring to. I suppose you could visit my blog and login using your username and password. That’s fine. However, what about new visitors directed to my blog from my website (www.465.com)? How are they going to register to post comments? Do they have to obtain a username and password at WordPress?
Maybe I’m using the wrong forum here. Perhaps I need to get a PHP Bulletin Board. I thought anybody could post to my blog, but when they hit the login in link, it asks for a username and password. Where do they get this information?
Thanks,
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Is your blog hosted at wordpress.com? I clicked your 465 site, and don’t see a blog at all, even if it is there, it’s not a wordpress.com one. I mean…..do you have a 465.wordpress.com style url? It’d be handy if you posted the link to your blog. If it’s not a wordpress.com blog, then this is the wrong forum to get help on.
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just my 2p worth. But any blog requireing me to register to post a comment wont get any comments from me. Whether i like whats been posted or not. I dont mind leaving a screen name and email, but anything else beyond that you aint getting :)
If your concerned over spam then set it up so that all comments have to be moderated, but there are problems with that aswell. I have 3 blogs on the go at the moment, 2 personal and one work. On all of them i have open commenting, but its set up that anyone who posts a link needs to have the comment moderated. This way i get rid of around 90% of the spam. The ones that slip thoguh dont take to long to remove. Especially since ive set it up so i recieve emails whenever a new comment is posted.
All of that aside, i dont think you can have registrations on wordpress.com, atleast its not listed in any of the options pages
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just my 2p worth. But any blog requireing me to register to post a comment wont get any comments from me. Whether i like whats been posted or not. I dont mind leaving a screen name and email, but anything else beyond that you aint getting :)
My sentiments exactly…..although for me I have throwaway emails just in case it’s abused.
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patioman, please provide a link to your blog. I have a feel that the blog is installed on your own site though. If that is true, you need to be over at http://wordpress.org
But any blog requireing me to register to post a comment wont get any comments from me.
Could care less about the spam. What I care about is the morons who leave comments on my blog and there’s no way to answer them. I love the idiots who beg me for help over and over again but don’t leave any way to contact them. Got one who has now left five comments, the last one very very rude just this afternoon but how am i supposed to get ahold of them?
Please excuse my terms but that’s how I feel about some of them.
Then I have the lovely folks who find something offensive on my blog and then take potshots at me….
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Thanks for all the comments. I finally figured out the correct setting in the configuration area. Now, when one visits the blog, there is a handy registration link on the right sidebar. It’s a whole new learning curve for me, but I am looking forward to the venture ahead.
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Just came across this thread and had a related question…what if I want a very simple registration form (a la what tiamatsdisciple suggested–say, name and firm) so I can track and analyze reader trends on my blog? Mine will be an industry-specific blog and I’m very interested in understanding the traffic it might generate. Haven’t figured out if WordPress even offers the option–it appears not to, as I don’t see any registration tips anywhere on the site. Just want to require a two-second form–literally just name and co.–before readers access the blog (I’d certainly post assurances that no info would be sold, shared, disseminated in any way, etc). Does anyone know if this is possible? And is this generally considered a bad idea, i.e. would it turn most people off from reading/contributing? Any help or feedback appreciated, thanks….
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Thanks for the tip and suggestion Thief…will submit the feedback to staff…appreciate the quick response…
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It would be doable on an independently-hosted WordPress blog, but currently not at blogs hosted at WordPress.com. If it’s essential to you, you may have to seek another host and download WP software. Actually, given that you can install sitemeter or statcounter and they will give you your readers’ IPs, you might not need that feature. The IPs presumably will trace to their companies, unless they’re using their home computers.
It will put people off, though. I get perhaps thirty comments a day on one of my blogs with open comments, and perhaps two on another with comment moderation.
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