Here is a comprehensive list of all the Discussion Settings:
1. Default Article Settings
There are three choices, bearing in mind that whatever you have chosen can also be overwritten per individual article.
- Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article – this will send out trackbacks and pings to other blogs when the article is published
- Allow link notifications from other blogs – this accepts trackbacks and pings from other blogs
- Allow people to post comments on new articles – this is the default Enable or Disable Comments
2. Comments Settings
There is a comprehensive list of settings as follows and you can customize to what suits you:
- Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
- Users must be registered and logged in to comment
- Automatically close comments on articles older than __ days
- Enable threaded (nested) comments __ levels deep
- Break comments into pages with __ comments per page and the __ page displayed by default
- Comments should be displayed with the older comments at the top of each page
- Use Markdown for comments
3. Email me whenever
- Anyone posts a comment
- A comment is held for moderation
- Someone likes one of my posts
- Someone reblogs one of my posts
- Someone follows my blog
4. Before A Comment Appears
- Comment must be manually approved
- Comment author must have a previously approved comment
5. Comment Moderation
- Should a comment in the queue if it contains __ or more links
- When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be held in the moderation queue. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress.”
6. Disallowed Comments
When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be put in the Trash. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress.”