Comment name filtering

  • greyhoundgames

    (@greyhoundgames)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    Is there any way to prevent people from posting comments using other users names? For example I have 2 admin accounts but I tried posting a comment using the same name and it let me. Won’t this let people pretend to be admins? Sure you could have moderation but it would be nice to auto reject things like that. Also I didn’t see a way for a user to create themself an account(to set things like avatars etc). I can do it under the admin screen but is there a way to let them and is this a good idea?

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  • dagon-design

    (@dagon-design)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    I wrote a code mod to do just this actually:

    http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/prevent-author-impersonation-in-wordpress-comments/

    description:

    This modification to WordPress prevents unregistered comment authors from using the names or email addresses of the registered authors on your site. It does this by first checking to see if the comment author is logged in. If they are not, it compares their name and email address to the registered author data. If there is a match, the comment is blocked and a custom message is displayed. The name and email address comparison is case-insensitive.

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