Due to updated EU privacy regulations, WordPress implemented a cookie policy that lets you choose if you want to accept a cookie or not. Yet when that was implemented it was not enabled, breaking some comment functionality here.
When you comment, if you are not logged in to WordPress somewhere, you’ll see a new checkbox. Please tick the box “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.”
This will set a cookie to remember you and will also show a moderation label (I moderate all comments) AND let you edit your comment for up to 5 minutes. If you don’t check the box, you can still comment but it won’t acknowledge you commented and you won’t be able to edit it.
🙂
Davidya
PS: I souped up the comment form a bit and have added a link below the comment form with these tips.
Hi David, is there a function that can inform us of when you have replied to a comment? As it is I go back to check if you have replied, that seems to be the only way to know? Then we might miss some of your replies?
Hi Kjetil
Yes, it’s Subscribe to Comments. When you comment, there’s a related checkbox you can check to be notified of replies.
You can also subscribe to any post without commenting. That’s another checkbox below (if you have not commented).
And in the right sidebar, there’s an RSS symbol with a C. That’s the RSS for the Comments feed. (if you use an RSS reader, which is fading in popularity.)
Got it, silly to not have noticed this for so long …
However, I see there are bugs in the commenting system now. I don’t normally see them as an administrator. Looking into it.