Question about comments and likes
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Hello, I like my blog a lot, but had a question about allowing people who are not logged in to wordpress to like or comment on my blog.
I thought I had it set to allow anyone to like or comment, but it does not appear to be working. Also, I am not clear from reading through the support topics if I am allowed or not to do this.
If I am, what do I do? Do I download a plug in? It looks like I can only have standard plugins and it looks like they are all in already.
Should I upgrade to premium plan? Does that allow for more plug ins for comments and likes?
Any help or advice you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
NickThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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re: like button use
Just like any other place with a like button, for example, Facebook, one has to register a username account and be logged in to be able to use it. All that’s required to register a WordPress.COM account is a valid email address. And many of us do not choose to activate like buttons on our sites. https://en.support.wordpress.com/likes/
If you assume that like button clicks are an accurate and true reflection of engagement then you are not aware of how many like button spammers there are. They click the like buttons on other sites for traffic driving purposes ie. simply so visitors will click their gravatars and visit their sites.
Bottom line: The value of a like button click in no way compares to the value of a thoughtful comment.
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Do I download a plug in? … Should I upgrade to premium plan? Does that allow for more plug ins for comments and likes?
No and no.
WordPress.com blogs have built-in plugins only.
You are confusing wordpress.COM hosted blogs and wordpress.ORG installs on paid hosting.
Blogger installed plugin capability does not exist on WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
For that type of functionality, you’d need a self-hosted WordPress.ORG software install running on a paid web hosting service.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/See: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress
https://move.wordpress.com/WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
As you are referring to a site that is not hosted here, if you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right-hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
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Thank you so much. I am pretty new to this and trying to figure it out, and then I had a few people ask me about it.
What you said makes perfect sense, and it clears a lot up.
Thank you once again!
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