If you use WebSite X5's built-in Comment management system, you must define the Content Type that website visitors can leave, choosing from:
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Comment and Vote: visitors can write a comment and vote the website.
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Comment: visitors can write a comment, but they can't vote.
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Vote: visitors can vote, but they can't write a comment.
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When you select Content Type, you will see the following options in the Comments Settings section:
| ▪ | Vote Style: select this option to define the style of the element that visitors can vote (for example, 5 stars). This is the only option available if you select Vote as Content Type. |
| ▪ | Arrange comments in multiple columns: this option reports the comments on different flanked columns instead of a single one. |
| ▪ | Show 'Abuse' button: select this option if you want an "Abuse" button added, so that visitors can report objectionable conduct. |
| ▪ | Enable 'Captcha' anti-spam filter: you can add the Captcha anti-spam filter to the end of the comment form. |
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Use the command in the Privacy and Security | Security window to choose the captcha system that is to be used
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| ▪ | Comments per Page: this defines how many posts are to be displayed in the comments box. |
| ▪ | View Mode: you can decide whether comments made by visitors are to be published immediately online, or whether they are to be approved first, using the commands in the online Control Panel. |
| ▪ | View Order: you can define the chronological order to the published comments, from the most recent to the earliest, or vice versa. |
If you use the Control Panel in WebSite X5 to manage the comments, you can indicate how data submitted in the comments form is to be saved and handled by the website administrator in the Data Save Settings section.
If you are working with the Evo edition, the data will be saved on the server, whereas if you are working with the Pro edition, you can choose to save it in a database:
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Send data to a file: submitted data is saved in a file created in the specified folder on the server.
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 Send data to a Database: the data submitted in the form is automatically sent to the specified MySQL database, using a PHP script.
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The following parameters depend on the method you have chosen for saving data:
Send data to a file:
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| ▪ | Subfolder on the Server where data is saved: specify the folder on the server (with PHP write access) in which the submitted data is to be saved. If you aren't going to use the WebSite X5 Hosting, the main server folder name is specified by the Server folder with write access option in the Server Settings | Data Management window. If you do not specify a sub-folder, the data will be saved in this one. |
| ▪ | Send an e-mail to notify when comments are received: a notification e-mail will be sent automatically when new data arrive. |
| ▪ | User e-mail address: enter the recipient address of the e-mail notifying data reception. |
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Send data to a Database:
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| ▪ | Send an e-mail to notify when comments are received: a notification e-mail will be sent automatically when new data arrive. |
| ▪ | User e-mail address: enter the recipient address of the e-mail notifying data reception. |
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Providers usually give write access to all folders on the server: if this is the case, you don't need to give the pathname of the public folder. In all other cases, contact your webspace provider for the complete public folder pathname.
You can check in the WebSite Test section of the online Control Panel whether the folder with write access, and any sub-folders inside i, actually exist and, if so, if you have write access to them (so that you can save the data).
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If you aren't going to use the WebSite X5 Hosting, you will need to use the dedicated options available in the Server Settings window to configure the Database connected to the Project
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Again if you use the Comment management system in WebSite X5, you can access the online Control Panel to enable notifications to be sent to the Website Administrator every time a Blog post gets a new comment.
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