# Blog Comments

https://docs.wisecp.com/es/blog-comments

Every comment left on your blog articles, in one queue: read it, publish it, mark it as spam or remove it.

## Opening the Screen

Choose **Site Management › Blog** from the menu, then click the **Comments** button above the article list. The direct address is `{admin}/manage-website/blogs/comments`. The badge on the menu entry and on the button counts the comments still waiting for review.

## What Is on the Screen

A toolbar above, the queue below. On a narrow screen the toolbar folds away behind the **Show Options** button. When nothing matches, the list reads **No comments yet.**

### The list

One row per comment, newest first. **Comment** holds the author's name and the opening of the message, and both open the comment window. A red dot in front of the name marks a comment nobody has opened yet. A **Reply** badge marks an answer to another comment, a **Staff** badge one posted under your staff identity.

**Article** opens the article on your site in a new tab. With no title, the column shows a `#` and the record number. A deleted article leaves the link pointing nowhere. **Status** shows where the comment stands, and **Date** can be sorted. The menu at the end of the row carries **View / Manage**, **Approve**, **Mark as Spam** and **Delete**. A moderation entry drops out once the comment already carries that status.

Above the queue sit the search box, matching the comment text and the author's name, and the page-size menu. The download button beside them writes the list to a CSV, JSON or XML file, and asks for the table export privilege.

### Statuses

- **Pending Review**: Waiting for you. The comment is not on the article yet.
- **Approved**: Published under the article on your site.
- **Spam**: Kept out of the article, with the record still here for later reference.
- **Trash**: Offered by the status filter, but no action on this screen moves a comment here.

### The comment window

Opening a comment marks it as read. The window gathers the author, the e-mail address, the status, the IP address, the date and a link to the article. When the comment is a reply, the parent's name and message sit above it in a quoted block. The message itself can be edited. Three or four buttons close the window: **Delete**, **Approve**, **Mark as Spam** and **Save**. The button for the status the comment already carries is left out here too.

## Fields

- **All Statuses**: Narrows the queue to one status. Optional; left alone it shows every comment. The choice stays in the address, so a narrowed queue can be bookmarked.
- **Apply to Selected**: Runs **Approve**, **Mark as Spam** or **Delete** on the ticked rows. Optional, and it returns to empty after every run.
- **Comment**: The message text inside the comment window. Required: saving an empty box ends with a warning.

## Tasks

### Review a comment

1. Click the author's name or the excerpt to open the comment window.
2. Read the message, and the quoted block above it when the comment is a reply.
3. Click **Approve** to publish it, or **Mark as Spam** to keep it off the article.
4. The window closes and the row carries its new status.

### Correct the wording

1. Open the comment window from the row.
2. Change the text in the **Comment** box.
3. Click the **Save** button at the bottom of the window.
4. The queue reloads with the corrected excerpt; the status is untouched.

### Moderate several at once

1. Tick the rows you want, or the box in the header to take the whole page.
2. Choose the action under **Apply to Selected**. Approve and Mark as Spam run at once.
3. Delete opens a confirmation window; with two or more rows you also type your own panel password.
4. The queue reloads and the rows carry their new status.

## Things to Watch

> **Deleting takes the replies with it**
> 
> Removing a comment also removes every reply written under it, and neither comes back. When you want to keep the record, mark it as spam instead.

> **Where the queue comes from**
> 
> Comments arrive from the blog articles on your site. A new one lands as Pending Review or goes straight to Approved. The comment system settings on the Blog article list make that call. A comment left while an admin session is open is approved right away.

> **Spam is not deletion**
> 
> A comment marked as spam leaves the article but keeps its row here. You can read it again later and approve it if the call was wrong.

## Required Privileges

Opening the queue needs one of the Site Management privileges. Opening a comment, approving it, marking it as spam and saving an edit need `MANAGE_WEBSITE_OPERATION`. Deleting needs `MANAGE_WEBSITE_DELETE`, which also governs the tick boxes and the delete entry in the row menu.

## Related Articles

- [Blog Articles](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/blog-articles)
- [Creating a Blog Article](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/creating-a-blog-article)
- [Blog Categories](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/blog-categories)