Word Verification Turned Off

Thursday, February 16

Blogger has changed the word verification feature.  The problem … these ‘supposed’ words can be far more difficult to decipher.  (Usually worse than the ones in the screenshot to the right.)

I’ve turned off the feature on this blog and will monitor what happens with the spam comments.  If I start getting a whole bunch of them, I may revert to comment moderation in lieu of the word verification.   In the meantime, I’ve read a few comments on other blogs where some have noted that they aren’t sure how to remove word verification.  Here are the ‘how to’ steps — if you are using Blogger’s new interface, you will have to temporarily revert to the old interface first.

• Open your blog in your dashboard; I do it by clicking Design as shown below

• On the far right of the dashboard, click the gear icon; select Old Blogger Interface

  Once you see the old Blogger dashboard:

• Click the Settings link

• From the second row of tabs, click the Comments link

• Scroll down and find Show Word Verification for Comments? and select the No radio button

• Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save Settings button

That’s all there is to it.   And if you want to revert back to the new interface, you can easily do so by clicking the ‘Try the Updated Blogger Interface’ link at the top of the Old Blogger dashboard.