People 'liking' my post and leaving comments

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  madpuncher · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 10:26 am

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  Dear Happy Engineers

  I have had a few questions from some of my blog followers who aren’t wordpress members about how to like and leave a comment without being having to sign up with wordpress. I know that in other platforms such as blogger, you can leave a comment as anonymous, or if they have an OpenID. Is something similar possible at all with wordpress?

  Your assistance in this will be much appreciated.

  Kind regards

  Maria McDonald
  Blog url: http://mariasmcdonald.wordpress.com/

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  andrewspittle · Staff · Sep 21, 2011 at 4:29 pm

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  Hi Maria! Anyone can comment on a post by using the Guest tab of the comment form. This just asks for a name and email address but doesn’t sign them up for any WordPress.com-related things.

  They can also log in to comment through Facebook and Twitter for comments. We don’t support OpenID logins on WordPress.com comments though.

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  madpuncher · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 10:42 pm

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  Hi Andrew

  Thanks for the reply. What about people wanting to ‘like’ my post (i.e. click the like button?). A friend of mine tried to do this but it kept bringing him back to the sign up page…???

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 21, 2011 at 10:48 pm

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  You’ll need to have a WordPress.com account to Like posts, which is why it’s asking them to login, but anyone can comment.

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  madpuncher · Member · Sep 21, 2011 at 10:54 pm

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  Thank you :)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 21, 2011 at 10:56 pm

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  You’re welcome!