Tuesday, February 21, 2012

How to turn off word verification from Blogger

This is a public service announcement for all Blogger posters and their readers who hate the new word captchas or word verifications. They are impossible.

Here's how to turn them off. I am going to see if Google catches my spam in the meantime.

You cannot turn them off from the new interface.
Go to your old dashboard. 
Find your old dashboard by clicking on the settings icon (little grey wheel) top right of your new interface.
It will give you a dropdown menu.
Click on Old Blogger interface
From there proceed to Settings, then Comments.
Uncheck Word Verification.

All gone.

Blog on.
Posted by Marie at 3:57:00 PM
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25 comments:

  1. DFebruary 21, 2012 at 4:03 PM

    Hurrah. I HATE word verification.

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  2. MarieFebruary 21, 2012 at 4:07 PM

    I used to not mind it. Lately, I am in your camp (and eating your supper).

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  3. my croftFebruary 21, 2012 at 4:10 PM

    I liked the old word verification -- those made-up words were often oddly evocative -- but now that the letters are illegible, I'm not as keen.

    Thanks for the info, Marie.

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  4. frank@nycgFebruary 21, 2012 at 6:14 PM

    cannot. make. it. out.

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  5. dinahmowFebruary 21, 2012 at 7:22 PM

    Thank you for this. I've passed it on to our Blogger blog admin and I'll post a link on my own blog. Ridiculous to need a magnifier to even read the silly glyphs!

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  6. She Who DoodlesFebruary 21, 2012 at 7:49 PM

    i don't see an old interface option when i click on the wheel. what am i missing.

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    1. MarieFebruary 21, 2012 at 8:08 PM

      Cynthia - probably a silly question but are you using the new interface?

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  7. webbFebruary 21, 2012 at 8:11 PM

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! i was going blind. This is a huge public service!!

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  8. danger gardenFebruary 22, 2012 at 12:30 AM

    Agreed that the new word verification was just a pain! If the spam gets out of hand you can still set it up so you approve comments before they go live. Maybe not realistic if you get tons of comments and aren't in front of your computer much.

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  9. CristyFebruary 22, 2012 at 7:37 AM

    Thanks. I don't really mind it, but I don't want my readers to have any problems. I fixed mine.

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  10. mamajulianaFebruary 22, 2012 at 8:26 PM

    Thankyou!!!!

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  11. ShaunterriaFebruary 23, 2012 at 9:19 PM

    You are awesome. Thank you for the PSA

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  12. Brenda Leyland @ Its A Beautiful LifeFebruary 26, 2012 at 3:33 PM

    THANK YOU.... I couldn't remember how to get into the old dashboard... and I was getting weary of this new word verification and I know my readers are too!

    Bless you for sharing your tip...............
    Brenda

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  13. Brenda Leyland @ Its A Beautiful LifeFebruary 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM

    PS....Oh rats.... I thought I had the answer. But now in my grey wheel drop-down menu, there isn't an old blogger interface to choose from.

    Any ideas what then?

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    1. MarieFebruary 26, 2012 at 6:58 PM

      Brenda, no, I'm afraid not. How any options do you have when it drops down?

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    2. Brenda Leyland @ Its A Beautiful LifeFebruary 27, 2012 at 1:03 PM

      Hi Marie.... There are 4 options: 1.Blogger help; 2.Send feedback; 3.Connect to Google+; 4.About our new look. (I've looked in all of these as well.)

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  14. gillyflowerFebruary 27, 2012 at 6:41 AM

    Thankyou for this - I had just spent ages trying to work out what to do as I hate the new style words and blogger help was no help. Have turned on comment moderation instead.

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  15. Brenda Leyland @ Its A Beautiful LifeFebruary 27, 2012 at 9:25 PM

    The final chapter in my word verification woes.... (in case someone else can't find the old interface.)

    With some instruction from DarkUFO from Blogger, we've been able to turn off our word verification. Yaaah! Turns out I was accessing Blogger via draft.blogger.com which turned out to be the problem.

    Here is what he told me to do:

    Ok, you need to stop using Draft Blogger. Using draft stops you from going back to the Old Interface. Go to www.blogger.com and on your dashboard there should be a checkbox/tickbox that says something like "Make Draft my default". Uncheck that then load www.blogger.com. You should then see the Cog icon (little gray wheel) and in the dropdown should see the Old Blogger option.

    I like happy endings!

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  16. sara jMarch 1, 2012 at 2:40 AM

    Thanks....pretty simple once I just followed your directions. I'm sure I would not have found that on my own! Lovely photos...'especially the cats!

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  17. Sasha A. PalmerMarch 6, 2012 at 8:57 AM

    Thank you so much!!! I hated that word verification thing, but I thought there was no way around it. Clear, perfect instructions, great!

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  18. UnknownMarch 14, 2012 at 12:52 PM

    Thanks! I couldn't figure out how to turn it off but my readers were complaining! This helped!

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  19. Belinda BassonMarch 15, 2012 at 2:31 AM

    Cannot thank you enough for this simple and effective explanation. I have copied and pasted it on my blog to try help some of my friends who might not know they have it either...like I didn't...

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  20. Barb CadyMay 16, 2012 at 4:14 AM

    Thank you, found this and it was so clear and Heilpful.

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  21. AnissaAugust 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM

    Thanks for that...easy and to the point!
    Anissa from Chasing Hailey
    http://chasinghailey.blogspot.com/

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  22. SayantiniSeptember 16, 2012 at 2:16 PM

    Yes!!it worked like magic. Thank you so much:D

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