Jetpack Comments

Integrate social media login options into your comment form with Jetpack Comments.

When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, offer them the option of using an existing social networking account to post.

Since it replaces the default WordPress comment form, Jetpack Comments are deactivated by default. To activate them, visit Jetpack → Settings → Discussion on your Dashboard and toggle the Let readers use WordPress.com or Facebook accounts to comment setting.

Please read this article to learn how to turn off WordPress comments altogether.

When activated, Jetpack Comments takes the place of your theme’s comment form. It will look something like this:

Third-party cookies must be enabled for social login

WordPress.com and Facebook login options for Jetpack Comments require third-party cookies to work properly. If WordPress.com and Facebook login options are not available when you enable Jetpack Comments, you can take the following steps to troubleshoot:

1. Enable third-party cookies in your browser. If you need guidance on how to do this for your preferred browser, please consult their documentation.
2. Check your browser’s privacy settings:
   • Temporarily disable privacy or ad-blocking extensions temporarily.
   • Ensure you’re not in private/incognito browsing mode.
3. Clear browser cache and cookies, then restart your browser. If you need guidance on how to do this for your preferred browser, please consult their documentation.

Comment form settings

Update your Comment form settings:

1. Go to Jetpack → Settings → Comments.
2. Change the Comment form introduction: the message that appears above your comment form from the default “Leave a Reply” to anything.
3. Change the comment form color scheme. Choose from Light, Dark, or Transparent.

Other Settings

• Enable pop-up business cards over commenters’ Gravatars: Enable Jetpack’s Gravatar Hovercards feature.
• Enable Markdown use for comments: Users can write their comments in Markdown.
• Enable comment likes: Users can like other users’ comments with Jetpack’s Comment Likes feature

Pingbacks and trackbacks

Pingbacks are very similar to trackbacks. Think of pingbacks as a form of remote comment. When you publish a post that contains a link to a post on another person’s pingback-enabled blog, the author of the other post receives a notification that you’ve linked to their post on their blog. The pingback is then displayed on the other post as a link to your post. 

Pingbacks can be used as a means to place spam comments on your site. You can follow these steps to completely disable pingbacks on your site:

1. Select Settings → Discussion in your site’s WP Admin
2. Disable Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new posts
3. Select Save Changes to disable pingbacks and trackbacks on new posts

You can also enable or disable Pingbacks for individual posts via the “Discussion” settings available in the sidebar when creating or editing a post.

Leave a comment

To leave a comment, click in the box and start typing. Once you click in the box, the comment form will expand and there will be options to log in with WordPress.com and Facebook.

If you do not have a WordPress.com or Facebook account or do not want to connect, you can still leave a comment by submitting your email and name. Your email address will never be publicly displayed; only the blog owners and admins will see it.

You can add your website if you would like to, and check a box to indicate you would like to save your email address in your current browser for next time you leave a comment here.

You can also sign up to be notified by email of new comments to the post and of new posts to the blog.

Comment Options

Before you click Post Comment, you have a few checkboxes that you can check:

• Checking Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment will store your information for the next time you participate in a discussion on this site.
• Checking Notify me of new comments via email will email you to confirm that you want to subscribe to comments. Once confirmed, you’ll get notifications via email each time a new comment is posted.
• Checking Notify me of new posts via email will email you to confirm that you would like to subscribe to the site’s blog posts. Once confirmed, you’ll get notifications via email each time a new blog post is posted.

Once you’ve clicked any checkboxes that you’d like, you can click Post Comment and your comment will either be posted automatically or held for moderation. This is based on the site owners’ settings found under Settings → Discussion → Before a comment appears.

Privacy Information

Jetpack Comments are deactivated by default. You can activate them at any moment from your WP Admin. To do so:

1. Go to Jetpack → Settings.
2. Click the Discussion tab.
3. Toggle the Let visitors use a WordPress.com or Facebook account to comment setting in the Comments section.