By ccioffi on

I am new to Drupal. I did a search on this before posting and there were a lot of references to changing the Anonymous field, but most seemed to be for prior versions of Drupal.

I figured out how to change "Anonymous" to another name, say "Guest". But what I'm hoping to do is allow non-registered users to post comments and instead of it saying "Anonymous" or "Guest" it will display the name they type in, for exampe Jane Smith. A lot of blogs work this way. I'm wondering if I am just missing something simple?

Many thanks for your help.

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sillygwailo’s picture

sillygwailo
Location Toronto, ON
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Click administer » comments » configure tab. Under "Comment posting settings" choose "Anonymous posters may leave their contact information". That works for Drupal 4.5 and after.

(Username formerly my full name, Richard Eriksson.)

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ccioffi commented

Tremendous thanks, Richard, for your help. Somehow I missed the comments configure tab completely. Got it working now.

Do you know how I can change the display of non-registered users from saying "Not Verified"?

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neuraxon77 commented

I miss this too initially. I'd like to see this enabled by default in the core.

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kitt commented

I, respectfully, disagree.

Software should be delivered as secure as possible, allowing user/administrators the ability to open up the access as desired.

Allowing anonymous users to post without being able to track them in some way (mostly so that they can edit what they had previously written), although becoming socially acceptable, isn't secure and may not desired by most people who do not use Drupal as a blog (where this feature is common), but for other purposes such as a website, discussion groups, or ecommerce site.

I do, however, believe better documentation would help. Not sure where to put it, though.