HighLevel Adds Blog Post Comments and Moderation

TL;DR

HighLevel added a native blog commenting system with moderation controls and threaded replies. If you host blogs on the platform, you can now turn on comments across your blog sites.

Who this affects

HighLevel has not confirmed which specific plans or users are affected. Anyone using HighLevel to host blogs can likely use the feature, while teams hosting content on external CMS platforms can ignore it.

What changed

• Added a Comments element to the blog post page builder that turns on commenting across all posts on a blog site.
• Reader features include submitting comments, threaded replies, adding emojis, attaching one image, and liking or disliking comments.
• Added passwordless reader authentication using an email address and a one-time code, along with in-window account creation.
• Added a Moderator badge to mark replies written by team members.
• Added a dedicated Comments tab inside Blogs to track metrics, search, filter by status or post, reply to, approve, or delete comments.
• Blog site settings now let you mandate comment approval, configure email notifications (instant alerts or daily digests), and assign specific notification recipients.
• Commenting is controlled at the blog site level rather than on individual posts.
• Blog comments do not appear in Conversations, and commenters are not added to Contacts.
• Rollout status, plan gating, and replacement details have not been confirmed by HighLevel.

Where to find it

In your sub-account, head to Sites → Blogs.

From there, you will find the dedicated Comments tab to manage moderation, metrics, and incoming replies. To activate the interface for readers, open the blog post page builder under Sites → Blogs and add the Comments element to your layout.

How agencies will use this

An agency running content marketing for a local business client inside a sub-account can turn on community discussion directly on their published articles. First, open the blog site settings under Sites → Blogs to require approval on all submissions and designate the client's email address for daily digest notifications.

Next, drop the Comments element onto the blog post template in the builder. When readers land on an article, they authenticate on the page using a one-time code sent to their email. When readers leave questions or attach images, the agency or client logs into Sites → Blogs, reviews the submissions in the Comments tab, approves them, and posts answers showing the Moderator badge.

Note that because commenters are not added to Contacts and comments do not feed into Conversations, you cannot trigger standard workflows or follow-up campaigns from these interactions.

Our take

This is a solid addition if you already use HighLevel for blogging and wanted native reader interaction without third-party embed scripts.

However, the lack of CRM integration limits its business value. Because HighLevel explicitly isolates blog comments from the Conversations inbox and does not create Contacts from authenticated commenters, you cannot use this directly for automated lead capture or pipeline triggers. It functions purely as a standard on-page community feature.