Title: Comment Roles
Author: Kendall Weaver
Published: <strong>September 11, 2015</strong>
Last modified: September 14, 2015

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Comment Roles

 By [Kendall Weaver](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kendalltristan/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comment-roles.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-roles/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-roles/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-roles/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-roles/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-roles/)

## Description

Comment Roles is a very simple plugin. The sole purpose is to provide users with
the ability to filter comments based on the role of users who have contributed comments
to any given post. This plugin is not meant to be used simply as is. Rather it’s
expected that a site administrator will apply additional CSS rules to their child
theme or to the CSS section of their theme or another plugin in order to to best
integrate this plugin in their site. There is currently no additional functionality
associated with this plugin.

This plugin does not work with Jetpack Comments. At present there are no plans to
try and make it work with Jetpack based on how it functions. Perhaps this will change
in the future, but for now I don’t anticipate anything different.
 Additionally,
this plugin requires the permalink structure be changed from the default. Any other
permalink structure will work fine.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * This shows the Comment Roles form with minor styling in the Twenty Twelve theme.
   No comments are currently being filtered.
 * [[
 * This shows the Comment Roles form as above, but set to only show comments by 
   Administrator accounts.

## Installation

 1. Install Comment Roles via the WordPress plugin installer, the plugin uploader, 
    or upload the file to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Add necessary CSS rules to your child theme or a custom CSS field provided by your
    theme or another plugin (Jetpack works well for this).

## FAQ

#### Do you have plans to add more functionality to the plugin?

At this moment nothing is set in stone, but I’d like to have it to where privileged
users can defined whether or not to enable the plugin on individual posts and have
a global setting for which roles are to be used. I have no general timeline at the
moment, but this is in a very early stage of development so anything could change.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-3718/)󠁿

 [kristina87](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kristina87/) September 3, 2016

Thank you very much for this plugin!

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/comment-roles/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Comment Roles” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Kendall Weaver ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kendalltristan/)

[Translate “Comment Roles” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/comment-roles)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/comment-roles/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/comment-roles/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-roles/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/comment-roles/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.0.3

 * Tested with obsolete WordPress versions to determine accurate compatibility. 
   Compatibility confirmed back to version 3.4.
 * Added initial screenshots.
 * Added div.comment-roles-wrap around the form.
 * Added classes to form inputs to simplify styling.

#### 0.0.2

 * Fixed a couple of very minor non-functional formatting issues in the code.
 * Added proper comments to the code.
 * Added “comment-roles-form” class to the form.

#### 0.0.1

 * Initial Release on wordpress.org forums.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.0.3**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[roles](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/roles/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-roles/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Kendall Weaver ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kendalltristan/)

## Support

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