How to enable comment links on blogger
It seems I need to clarify something. This post won’t tell you how to fix Blogger’s idiocy, nor how to make the process of enabling comments easier. It will only instruct you on how to go about doing it. So for those of you who are thinking I’m going to walk you through changing Blogger’s assinine policy that isn’t happening here, sorry
In order to combat spoofing Blogger has decided to require that any blog which wishes to allow comment links needs to enable Open ID comment authentication. It is a relatively easy feature (and I use that term loosely) to activate. Take the following steps and you should be fine.
- Log into draft.blogger.com
- Click settings on the blog you want to enable it on
- Click comments near the top
- Put a mark in registered users
Thanks goes to Windyridge who pointed out that blogger.com no longer allows links to non-blogger sites in comments. Clearly Blogger dropped the ball on this as they didn’t even bother to notify their own users of the change or make any effort to make this information easily accesible to the general public.
That takes care of the blogger account holders, but what about the readers? What do they have to do? They need to setup an OpenID account. When you first get to the page it gives you a very limited number of OpenID resources. You can however visit this post about setting up a custom OpenID which will walk you through making one for any website/url. Can anyone say pain in the ass?
I’d say this is just ANOTHER reason that users of the free blogger service should seriously consider switching to Word Press.
