THE ASKING OF WORDPRESS ACCOUNT TO PUT LIKES AND COMMENTS
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS, WHEN I PUT, IN MY GRAVATAR THE OTHER SITES LIKE WRITING 101 AND BLOGGING 101 THIS PROBLEM HAS STARTED, ANY BODY VISITING MY BLOG APART FROM WORDPRESS BLOGGERS, MY BLOG IS ASKING FOR THOSE WHO VISIT TO HAVE WORDPRESS ACCOUNT, SO THE OTHER DAY IT SO HAPPENED WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS BROWSING MY BLOG SHE HAD TO OPEN A WORDPRESS ACOUNT AND PUT HER LIKE, SHE ULTIMATELY OPENED A WORDPRESS BLOG, WHICH WAS NOT NECESSARY , THIS WAS EXPERIENCED BY ONE OF MY VISITORS ALSO WHO TOLD ME ABOUT THIS. SO I REMOVED THE OTHER SITES, BUT THE PROBLEM STILL PERSISTS. I WANT TO GET IT CLEARED OFF.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
SHIVAThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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What is to be done starts with you unlocking your cap locks key on your keyboard. Typing in all capital lettering makes text difficult to read and in cyberspace it is the rude equivalent of SHOUTING! into another person’s face. Please do that now.
One has to register a WordPress.com/Gravatar account and be logged into WordPress.com to use the “in-house” WordPress.COM like button for WordPress.COM bloggers. In other words, it’s the same here as it is at Facebook and at everywhere else there is an “in-house” like button provided for member use only.
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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 commentNote 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.
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Do excuse me for the caps text. Let me tell you when I started writing the text, it was already in the caps lock position. Then I thought it would go as something important, like how you have put the word ‘Shouting!’ in the caps to give it some importance or to convince me about it. There was no intention of being rude or shouting at somebody’s face. Be cool, now the text is not in the caps, OK. Thank-you for informing me that caps texts show of rudeness and shouting at another person’s face.
Coming to the crux of the problem I went into the discussion settings and have checked, saw if I had clicked for the “users must be registered and logged into comment” no I have not clicked it, but the problem still persists, it asks for the wordpress account.
This problem is been there for more than a fortnight now, and I have been trying to solve it through Happiness Engineers, who it seems sent me emails which I did not receive. Then they have asked me to put the comment on the forum.
Shiva -
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.
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Hi Shiva,
The Likes feature (clicking the “Like” button on your blog posts) is only available to WordPress.com users. If someone isn’t logged in to a WordPress.com account and they click that “Like” button, they’ll be asked to log in or create a new account.
Your blog is set to allow anyone to leave a comment, so if someone doesn’t have a WordPress.com account they won’t be asked to log in. If someone has a WordPress.com account linked to their email address, and they enter their email address to leave a comment, they will be asked to log in to that account.
If you have any other questions or concerns about that, please let me know.
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I agree what you say but, if somebody without the wordpress account wants to put a like on my blog it is asking for the wordpress account and they are not getting to log in.
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The like button is designed only for use only by those who have registered wordpress.com/gravatar accounts and are logged in under them. This cannot be changed. Do you understand that?
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You mean they should have either wordpress accounts or gravatar accounts. Any body who is having just an email cannot do it.Is that so.
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Hi Shiva,
Yes, that is correct. If someone doesn’t have a WordPress.com/Gravatar account, they can’t use the Like button.
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I think we have done a lot of beating around the bush.
I only feel, if I was informed about it when I began this discussion, it would have been better.
As my people – friends and cousins found it difficult to visit and put likes on my blog.
I have a suggestion here. It shall be good if you take it sportively.
When the page asks for the wordpress or gravatar account when anybody wants to put a like, it is better that it shows prominently or displayed on the screen that one must have a wordpress or gravatar account to do this. The person would naturally think of opening the account.
It only shows on the bottom to ‘register’ , this leads one to open a BLOG instead.
I hope you understand !
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Hi Shiva,
Thanks for that feedback! For now, if your friends and family want to open a WordPress.com account without a blog they can use this link:
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