Managing comments

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What is a comment?

A comment is a piece of content, typically posted by a website visitor, which provides discussion or commentary on other content like blog posts and news articles. Comments are a type of content entity, and can have fields that store text, HTML markup, and other data. Comments are attached to other content entities via Comment fields. See Managing content structure for more about content entities and fields.

What is a comment type?

Comments are divided into comment types, which are the entity sub-types for the comment entity type. Each comment type has its own fields and its own form and display settings; each type can be used to comment on a single entity type. You can set up different comment types for different commenting purposes on your web site; for example, you might set up a comment type for recipes that has fields "How did it taste?" and "Did the instructions work?", and another comment type for blog entries that has only a generic comment body field.

What is moderation?

Moderation is a workflow where comments posted by some users on your site are verified before being published, to prevent spam and other bad behavior. The core software provides basic moderation functionality: you can configure permissions so that new comments posted by some user roles start as unpublished until a user with a different role reviews and publishes them. Contributed modules provide additional moderation and spam-reduction functionality, such as requiring untrusted users pass a CAPTCHA test before submitting comments and letting community members flag comments as possible spam. See Managing user accounts and site visitors for more about users, permissions, and roles.

Overview of managing comments

The core Comment module provides the following functionality:

  • Posting comments
  • Creating comment types; the core Field UI module allows you to attach fields to comment types and attach comment reference fields to other entities so that people can comment on them.
  • Configuring commenting
  • Moderating comments as discussed above

See the related topics listed below for specific tasks.

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