Get Readers On WordPressUser-Friendly Permalinks, Comment Settings, Manage Comments

What We Will Cover

1. User-Friendly Permalinks2. Comment Settings3. Manage Comments

User-Friendly Permalinks

What Are Permalinks?

A permalink is a URL that points to a specific web page, often a blog or forum entry which has passed from the front page to the archives, or the result of a search in a database.

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Comment Settings

Do You Need Comments?

No matter how you setup comments on a website, they cause problems.

● spam● security vulnerabilities● lack of engagement

Do you really need comments to serve your audience?

What Value Do Commenters Add?

When was the last time you read an article and thought, the comments really added to that conversation?

When this does happen, is the content of the site actually valuable?

Do you want to have a site where the comments are more valuable than the content?

Manage Comments

Making The Best Of WordPress Comments

1. Do not use the native comments feature in WordPress.2. Use social comments (Comments Evolved for WordPress).3. Give commenters the option to use Facebook or Google+ logins when

commenting, maybe include Disqus as well.4. Turn off comments on pages and restrict comments to posts.

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