You can allow visitors to leave comments on any page, news story or photo album. Comments left by visitors, need to be verified by an Administrator before appearing on your website.
Enable Comments
This guide assumes you have already enabled commenting on the site.
- Navigate to the area of the website where you would like to enable comments.
- Select Comments from the Edit tab.
- On the comments drop-down, click Yes.
Click the save button on the Edit Tab and choose the desired save option.
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Save Now
- If you see this option, you are able to save and publish your item immediately to make it live on the website.
- If you have purchased our School News Mobile App, Administrators or Publishers will also be able to tick the option to send a notification to subscribed app users.
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Save Draft
- This will allow you to save your item without publishing it, and return to continue editing via the Drafts button on the Home Tab
- This will allow you to save your item without publishing it, and return to continue editing via the Drafts button on the Home Tab
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Send for Approval
- This option enables you to send an item to be reviewed and approved by either an Administrator or Publisher. Once approved this item will be made live on the site.
Leaving a comment and Administrator approval
- A comment section will appear at the bottom of your page and will look similar to below:
When a visitor submits a comment, it is sent to an Administrator for review. A message will appear stating: Your comment has been saved. It may be moderated before appearing on the website.
- An Administrator will be sent the comment for moderation, in their My Tasks queue. The moderation task will contain all submitted information, properties of the comment and visitor IP.
