Nov
Not Sure if a Comment is Spam? Here's What You Can Do…
You get an email telling you that you have a new comment on an old post. You don’t recognize the person, and that’s ok. You don’t know all your readers. The comment is off, but you aren’t quite sure if it’s spam or just someone with bad English. It’s not inappropriate, just not quite the comment you’d expect for that post.
Here’s what you can do. Go into your dashboard. Click on Comments at the top of the page. All unapproved comments will be highlighted in yellow. Click on the person’s name. That will take you to a page where you can edit the comment. I cut and paste all comment links in a new browser to see where they are going to take my readers. If it takes them to a questionable site, I delete the link out of the comment, and approve the rest.
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Update for WordPress 2.7, unapproved comments are now called Pending. Simply hover your curser under the comment and a menu will appear. One of the links says Edit. Click on it to edit the comment.
