Integrate social media login options into your comment form with Jetpack Comments.
When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, offer them the option of using an existing social networking account to post.
Since it replaces the default WordPress comment form, Jetpack Comments are deactived by default. To activate them, visit Jetpack → Settings → Discussion on your Dashboard and toggle the Let readers use WordPress.com or Facebook accounts to comment setting.
When activated, Jetpack Comments takes the place of your theme’s comment form. It will look something like this:
Log in to leave a comment with Jetpack Comments
Comment form settings
Update your Comment form settings:
Go to Jetpack → Settings → Comments.
Change the Comment form introduction: the message that appears above your comment form from the default “Leave a Reply” to anything.
Change the comment form color scheme. Choose from Light, Dark, or Transparent.
Other Settings
Enable pop-up business cards over commenters’ Gravatars: Enable Jetpack’s Gravatar Hovercards feature.
Enable Markdown use for comments: Users can write their comments in Markdown.
Enable comment likes: Users can like other users’ comments with Jetpack’s Comment Likes feature
Pingbacks and trackbacks
Pingbacks are very similar to trackbacks. Think of pingbacks as a form of remote comment. When you publish a post that contains a link to a post on another person’s pingback-enabled blog, the author of the other post receives a notification that you’ve linked to their post on their blog. The pingback is then displayed on the other post as a link to your post.
Pingbacks can be used as a means to place spam comments on your site. You can follow these steps to completely disable pingbacks on your site:
Select Settings → Discussion in your site’s WP Admin
Disable Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks) on new posts
Select Save Changes to disable pingbacks and trackbacks on new posts
You can also enable or disable Pingbacks for individual posts via the “Discussion” settings available in the sidebar when creating or editing a post.
Leave a comment
To leave a comment, click in the box and start typing. Once you click in the box, the comment form will expand and there will be options to log in with WordPress.com and Facebook.
If you do not have a WordPress.com or Facebook account or do not want to connect, you can still leave a comment by submitting you email and name. Your email address will never be publicly displayed; only the blog owners and admins will see it.
You can add your website if you would like to, and check a box to indicate you would like to save your email address in your current browser for next time you leave a comment here.
You can also sign up to be notified by email of new comments to the post and of new posts to the blog.
Leave a comment using Jetpack Comments
Comment Options
Before you click Post Comment, you have a few checkboxes that you can check:
Checking Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment will store your information for the next time you participate in a discussion on this site.
Checking Notify me of new comments via email will email you to confirm that you want to subscribe to comments. Once confirmed, you’ll get notifications via email each time a new comment is posted.
Checking Notify me of new posts via email will email you to confirm that you would like to subscribe to the site’s blog posts. Once confirmed, you’ll get notifications via email each time a new blog post is posted.
Once you’ve clicked any checkboxes that you’d like, you can click Post Comment and your comment will either be posted automatically or held for moderation. This is based on the site owners’ settings found under Settings → Discussion → Before a comment appears.
Jetpack Comments are deactivated by default. You can activate them at any moment from your WP Admin. To do so:
Go to Jetpack → Settings.
Click the Discussion tab.
Toggle the Let visitors use a WordPress.com or Facebook account to comment setting in the Comments section.
Data Used
Site Owners / Users
This features the same data as the core WordPress commenting system: commenter’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided to the comment form), submission date/time, and IP address.
Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content.
If Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.
For toggle activity tracking (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.
Site Visitors
This features the same data as the core WordPress commenting system: commenter’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided to the comment form), submission date/time, and IP address.
Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content.
If Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.
Activity Tracked
Site Owners / Users
The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.
We also track when, and by which user, the feature is activated and deactivated. We also track when, and which, configuration settings are modified.
Site Visitors
The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.
We sync all data and metadata associated with a user’s comment. We also sync options that identify whether or not the feature is activated and how its available settings are configured.
Site Visitors
We sync all data and metadata associated with a user’s comment.
Jetpack 
Jetpack Comments
Integrate social media login options into your comment form with Jetpack Comments.
When someone reads an article on your site and wants to comment, offer them the option of using an existing social networking account to post.
Since it replaces the default WordPress comment form, Jetpack Comments are deactived by default. To activate them, visit Jetpack → Settings → Discussion on your Dashboard and toggle the Let readers use WordPress.com or Facebook accounts to comment setting.
Please read this article to learn how to turn off WordPress comments altogether.
When activated, Jetpack Comments takes the place of your theme’s comment form. It will look something like this:
Comment form settings
Update your Comment form settings:
Other Settings
Pingbacks and trackbacks
Pingbacks are very similar to trackbacks. Think of pingbacks as a form of remote comment. When you publish a post that contains a link to a post on another person’s pingback-enabled blog, the author of the other post receives a notification that you’ve linked to their post on their blog. The pingback is then displayed on the other post as a link to your post.
Pingbacks can be used as a means to place spam comments on your site. You can follow these steps to completely disable pingbacks on your site:
You can also enable or disable Pingbacks for individual posts via the “Discussion” settings available in the sidebar when creating or editing a post.
Leave a comment
To leave a comment, click in the box and start typing. Once you click in the box, the comment form will expand and there will be options to log in with WordPress.com and Facebook.
If you do not have a WordPress.com or Facebook account or do not want to connect, you can still leave a comment by submitting you email and name. Your email address will never be publicly displayed; only the blog owners and admins will see it.
You can add your website if you would like to, and check a box to indicate you would like to save your email address in your current browser for next time you leave a comment here.
You can also sign up to be notified by email of new comments to the post and of new posts to the blog.
Comment Options
Before you click Post Comment, you have a few checkboxes that you can check:
Once you’ve clicked any checkboxes that you’d like, you can click Post Comment and your comment will either be posted automatically or held for moderation. This is based on the site owners’ settings found under Settings → Discussion → Before a comment appears.
Still need help?
Please contact support directly. We’re happy to advise.
Privacy Information
Jetpack Comments are deactivated by default. You can activate them at any moment from your WP Admin. To do so:
This features the same data as the core WordPress commenting system: commenter’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided to the comment form), submission date/time, and IP address.
Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content.
If Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.
For toggle activity tracking (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.
This features the same data as the core WordPress commenting system: commenter’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided to the comment form), submission date/time, and IP address.
Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content.
If Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.
The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.
We also track when, and by which user, the feature is activated and deactivated. We also track when, and which, configuration settings are modified.
The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.
We sync all data and metadata associated with a user’s comment. We also sync options that identify whether or not the feature is activated and how its available settings are configured.
We sync all data and metadata associated with a user’s comment.
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