If you are using Blogger (Blogspot) as your blogging platform, who am I to judge. It’s simple to design, easy to maneuver, and integrates seamlessly with Google Analytics, Feedburner, Picasa, Google Reader… Now that I think of it, it’s pretty gosh darn awesome if you ask me.
Google has even updated the Dashboard so that it’s very clean and cool. Unfortunately, what it has gained in style (so to speak), it has lost in functionality.
For instance, you can’t seem to remove the CAPTCHA (word verification) when people leave comments in the new Blogger interface. If you try looking in the Settings > Posts and Comments, there is no longer a section for word verification as there once was. It seems that the only way to make this adjustment is in the “old” Blogger interface. So how does one get around this?
Go to the “Options” icon. It’s looks like a little gear on the right side of the screen. Click on it and find the link to the Old Blogger Interface.
This will take you to the old interface. Click on the Settings and that will take you to Comments menu.
Scroll down, down, down…. even further down… to the options to turn OFF the word verification.
Now, embrace the SPAM!
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Im no longer on blogger but this Captcha thing has gotta go!
Thank you for posting this! I was contacted by someone trying to leave a comment on my blog that they were having a hard time because of my word verification (that I set up years ago). I thought it would be as simple as turning it off in my settings, but I thought I was crazy that I couldn’t find it! As much as I love blogger, I’ve been having some issues lately!
Thanks again,
Kristen
Thank you for this!!!! I hope it is okay if I link back to your post…I’ve been running into so many blogs that have this word verification/captcha! They are sooo hard to decipher with the fonts they use!
I cannot disable mine because I no longer am given the option to go back to “old blogger interface” when I click on the wrench on my page. The option I’m given is “About our new look”. How did I get so UNlucky?
Finally, got word verification disabled. Between clearing my cache and unchecking the ‘make blogger draft my default’ box on my dashboard, then signing out of Blogger and then resigning in on this link:
http://www.blogger.com/home
It took a bit of fiddling, but I no longer have word verification. Yeah!
Thank you!!!! I was going nuts trying to figure this out with the new blogger and you had me done with this in 2 seconds!!!!! So grateful!!!
Thanks you so much for this, CAPTCHA gives me so much headaches.
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Thanks for posting this, I couldn’t work out how to change back to the old interface, but your very clear explanation it’s done the trick! x
Thank you! I disabled mine a long time ago, because the spam filter works just fine. I set moderate comments after three days and I really don’t have that many problems. I’m spreading the word, because those Captchas are a royal pain.
thanks dude
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Thank you! My own mother won’t comment on my blog because of the captcha. I’m glad to have it gone!
Hi Grace,
I stopped here to learn about how to remove the word verification from blogger. Appreciate sharing this article. I got it done. Thanks.