Turn on reader comments

Let members discuss your posts, choose who can comment, and moderate the conversation from your admin.

Who can do this: Owners and Administrators choose who can comment. Owners, Administrators and Super Editors can moderate.

Comments let your readers talk to you and to each other under each post. Only members can comment, which keeps out anonymous spam: every comment comes from a real email address that signed up to your site. Anyone can read the comments.

Choose who can comment

Go to Settings → Access.
Next to Who can comment on posts?, choose All members, Paid-members only or Nobody.
Select Save.

The “Who can comment on posts?” menu open with three options: All members (logged-in members), Paid-members only (only logged-in members with an active Stripe subscription) and Nobody (disable commenting completely).

Setting	What happens
All members	Any signed-in member, free or paid, can comment. New sites start here.
Paid-members only	Only paying members can comment. Others can read the comments and are invited to upgrade. Needs Stripe, on the Publisher and Business plans.
Nobody	Comments are turned off everywhere and the comment section disappears from your posts.

Comments also need members: if Who should be able to subscribe to your site? is set to Nobody, there’s no one to comment. See members: free and paid readers.

What readers see

At the end of each post, your theme shows the discussion. Signed-in members can write a comment, reply to others, like a comment, and report one they think breaks the rules. Visitors who aren’t signed in see the comments and an invitation to sign up or sign in to join in. The first time a member comments, they’re asked for the name to show next to it.

The “Member discussion” section under a post with 2 comments: a box to join the discussion, a Sort by menu set to Best, a comment from one member and a reply from another, each with like, dislike, Reply and more buttons. — The discussion as a signed-in member sees it.

You and your staff can join in too: sign in to your own site as a member with your staff email address and comment like anyone else. Readers can sort comments by Best, Newest or Oldest.

Moderate comments

Select Comments in the sidebar to see every comment across your site, newest first. The tabs show All, Reported (comments readers have flagged) and Hidden. Search the text, or filter by Post, Author or Date.

The Comments screen with All, Reported and Hidden tabs, a search box and Post, Author, Date and Filter menus, listing two comments on a demo post. Each has a Hide button, a reply button and a more menu; the top-level comment also has a pin button.

Hide removes a comment from your site straight away. It moves to the Hidden tab, where Show puts it back.
Reply (the speech-bubble button) opens the thread so you can answer from the admin.
Pin comment keeps a top-level comment at the top of the discussion, for example your own note or the best answer.
The … menu has View on post, View member, and Disable commenting, which stops that member commenting in future. You can also hide everything they’ve written before. Enable commenting in the same menu lets them back in.

A comment’s more menu open, with View on post, View member and Disable commenting.

Good to know

Where comments appear is up to your theme. The themes included with Blogaly show them at the end of posts.
Turning comments off with Nobody hides the section but doesn’t delete anything. Turn them back on and existing comments return.
Deleting a post also deletes its comments.
Blocked email domains under Settings → Spam filters stop unwanted signups, which also keeps spam out of your comments.
Comments aren’t included in newsletters. Email readers follow the link to the post to join in.

Last checked against the product on 7 November 2026.

Members: free and paid readersMembers are readers with an account on your site. What they get, where they come from, and how many each plan includes.The signup and account pop-upHow readers sign up and manage their account on your site, and how to choose who can join and what the pop-up looks like.Who can read a post: public, members, paidChoose who can read each post, give everyone a free preview, and set the default for new posts.Invite staff and choose their rolesInvite writers and editors to your site, pick what each of them can do, and change or remove their access later.

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