The Guest Book enables visitors to your site to leave you good, bad, happy, sad, perverted, vulgar, and
other questionable feedback. These messages can show on your web site. Guest books are good
to get feedback on your web site, or even your business or organization in general. Don't worry though, all
guest book entries have to be authorized before they are posted on your site. The guest book was designed to
work like the following the following.
A visitor signs your guest book. When signing it, they have the option of choosing to keep the message public, or
to make it private. At this point the message is not posted on your web site. When you login to your site, and
go into your Guest Book, you will see the entry(s) there. You have to click on the guest book entry. At this point you
need to decide whether to verify(authorize) it, or delete it. If you choose to verify it, the outcome of the message depends
on whether the user chose to make it public or private. If they chose private, the guest book entry will NOT show on
your web site. It's a private message. If they chose public, which is the default, it will now show on your web site.
Viewing Guest Book Entries
To view a guest book entry, you need to click on the option "Guest Book" on
the administrative menu.
Here, you will see a list of all guest book entries that have NOT been verified. It will look like
following:
As you can see, information regarding whether the message is public or private is available. You can also see the
date it was posted and who it was from.
If you click on the entry, you will be able to see detailed information on the posted form data. If you click on
and entry the following is available.
Verifying Guest Book Entries
As mentioned, you either need to verify or delete the guest book entry. To verify it, you need to be in the entry. All
you need to do is check the box labeled "Information has been verified." The screen should look like the following:
When you are done checking the "Information has been verified" box you need to click the "Save" button at the bottom. As
mentioned earlier, the outcome of the message depends on whether the message is public or private.
Deleting Guest Book Entries
To delete a guest book entry, you need to check the box labeled "You MUST check this box first to Delete this Entry", then
click the "Save" button. Once you delete an entry, it is gone. There is no way to get it back.
Viewing Past Guest Book Entries
After you verify a guest book entry, they will be available in your guest book entry list. There is a drop down menu
at the top of the list that will allow you to select "Review", "Private", and "Public". Each section will show you only those
corresponding messages. The drop down look like the following:
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