Disable Anonymous Comments

Adjust the allowed actions for each membership type within your Admin Panel - Settings - Membership Levels, Manage Membership Types ;-)

I can't figure this one out.  Right now the only options for a Non-Member are:

"make search"

"use Orca public forums"

"view other members' guestbooks"

"vote"

Where do I get rid of the add comments options if unregistered?  Now if I add an action of "comments Post" I don't see how you can remove the ability to make an anonymous comment?  I just want my users to have to login or create an account to make a comment on a blog or anywhere else for that matter.  This is what shows up on the comment post option...

Any ideas?  Thanks

Same problem. There is no action related to posting comments in Non-member section but the Anonymous comments are still active. Here are the allowed actions for non-member:

"make search"

"use Orca public forums"

"view other members' guestbooks"

"vote"

But they still can post. How can we disable it?

In admin Builders/Page builders - go to the relevant page, click the comments block and make viewable to member only.

In 6.14?  I don't see any comments block on the homepage.

I just tried adding a start and end date of today's date in the add comments section.  I'll see if that works.

I tried that @signalzero. It does not work. tango3d I just want to disable comment posting. If I block Guest on View Comments block then anonymous users willnot see any comment. I want them to view comments but not post a comment.

Hello. Happy new year. The point that I want to know is that is there any option to disable the anonymous comments from Dolphin interface? I just want to seek a solution that will prevent getting my hands dirty with the php code.

OK, well I just made all comments blocks only viewable to members, that way you will not get anonymous comments, as for making the comment block viewable but not useable...... sorry I cant help with that but I'm sure there will be a way but its not possible in admin, you will need a coder.

Hello

There might be other ways to do achieve this, however my method was this:

Open "BxBaseCmtsView.php" from root/templates/base/scripts/ and replace lines 278 to 284 which is the following:

return '
<div class="cmt-post-reply">
<div class="cmt-reply-head">
<a href="#" onclick="' . $this->_sJsObjName . '.toggleReply(this, \'0\'); return false;">' . _t('_Add Your Comment') . '</a>
</div>
' . $this->_getFormBox() . '
</div>';

with:

if ( !( $logged['member'] = member_auth( 0, false ) ) )        
return '<div> <a href="yoursite/member.php" target="_self">'. _t('_RegCOM') .'</a></div>';
else

return '     
<div class="cmt-post-reply">
<div class="cmt-reply-head">
<a href="#" onclick="' . $this->_sJsObjName . '.toggleReply(this, \'0\'); return false;">' . _t('_Add Your Comment') . '</a>
</div>
' . $this->_getFormBox() . '
</div>';  
Now you notice i added a language constant to that code _RegCOM, login as admin and add a new language string where _RegCOM = Register to comment , or whatever you think best

Hope that help