How To Get Rid Of Blogger’s ‘Robot’ Word Verification

While catching up on some blogs yesterday I noticed that quite a few of my favourite bloggers seem to have had their ‘comments’ taken over by the dreaded “to prove you are not a robot” word verification. This was widespread in blogland last week as Google or Blogger misfired somehow and changed a lot of bloggers’ default comment location.  I’m pretty sure no one wants that robot word verification so I’ll show you how to get rid of it.

Having to enter this stuff will severely restrict comments

There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for how some folks blog comments were changed and others were not. The only common factor I could see was the one’s affected all used pop-up windows for comments. Google prefers embedded I know so perhaps they were doing some system testing and messed things up.  It happens. 

 

In the image above you’ll see items marked 1. and 2.  Normally, by changing ‘Show word verification’ to ‘No’ as shown in 1. above that would do it. But that isn’t working for a lot of bloggers. There is a solution though and its shown in 2. in the same image. Changing your blog to ‘Embedded’ and ‘Show word verification’ to ‘No’ does work and it get’s rid of the ‘Robot’ thingie on your comments.  Here’s how to access this page on your blog:

1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard
2. Click the down arrow next to your blog name and select ‘Settings’
3. Click on the Comments tab on the left pane
4. Change the ‘Show word verification’ to ‘No’
5. Change the Comment Location to ‘Embedded’ if required

That’s it. I think Blogger may be trying to get rid of pop-up windows altogether and to standardize comments using the embedded format.  That’s what G+ Integrated comments uses.  Looks like they just goofed up by changing a lot of blogs without the owners having any idea.  Nice guys!

All hitched-up and ready to roll early Wednesday morning!

We had a very good day of packing and organizing for our departure on the MV Coho to Port Angeles on Wednesday morning. I hitched the truck and 5’er up before 1pm and except for a few small items and a lot of gizmos and gadgets, I was all done and had some time to relax in the afternoon. So did Paulette so we should be well rested for our first day’s drive down to the Midway RV Park in Centralia, WA.

Thanks for visiting!