Chapter 8. Comments and Trackbacks

You can have the best graphics, flash animations, and all the latest gadgets installed on your blog, but guess what; If you don't write interesting stuff then readers won't be attracted to your website and they won't leave any comments. That's the real power of having a weblog—you can interact with your visitors via the comments they leave in your posts! You can also build strong commercial and personal relationships this way.

In this chapter, we shall learn:

• How to manage comments in your weblog

• How to moderate comments through Apache Roller's administrator interface

• About spam and all the counter-measures available in Apache Roller

• About trackbacks and how to use them to interact with other bloggers

Note

Before getting your hands dirty with this chapter's exercises, make sure to change your Roller weblog's theme to Basic, because this is the one I'll use to explain the comments and trackbacks features.