Title: Checking comments before posting
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Checking comments before posting

 *  [daxdiri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daxdiri/)
 * (@daxdiri)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-comments-before-posting/)
 * I am trying to validate a comment before adding it into the database. Basically,
   I want to limit one comment per user per post. I thought I could write a function
   to check this, but it looks like there isn’t a hook to do a check BEFORE posting
   a comment. The closest I found was “comment_post” but that runs just AFTER a 
   comment is saved in the database.
 * Anyone know if there is an action hook that check before you post a comment or
   if there is a plugin out there that lets you limit one comment per user per post?

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 *  [Terri Ann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/terriann/)
 * (@terriann)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-comments-before-posting/#post-1421568)
 * It’s been a month but for future Googler’s (like myself):
 * If that’s the only problem then why not have the comment save itself, then hook
   to comment_post to check and then update the status or delete the comment if 
   one already exists by that author/email or whatever you are validating against.

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 * Last reply from: [Terri Ann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/terriann/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-comments-before-posting/#post-1421568)
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