Title: Comment doesn’t show up–does in admin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comment doesn’t show up–does in admin

 *  [thepete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepete/)
 * (@thepete)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-show-up-does-in-admin/)
 * Hi, I’ve posted comments to my own site a bunch of times. But today I go to post
   a comment and it won’t post to the entry. I can see the comment in the “Comments”
   section on my admin’s edit page, but the text is gray instead of black. What 
   does this mean? Please let me know–I’m freaking out here… thanks!!

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 *  [borntorun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borntorun/)
 * (@borntorun)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-show-up-does-in-admin/#post-140859)
 * Maybe it means that the comment is awaiting moderation? Go to Edit > Awaiting
   Moderation and see if the comments are sitting there waiting for approval.
 *  Thread Starter [thepete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepete/)
 * (@thepete)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-show-up-does-in-admin/#post-140861)
 * You’re right–duh–I can’t believe I didn’t check there.
 * Why are my posts being held for moderation??? This makes no sense…
 * In Admin>Options>Discusion, I have “An administrator must approve the comment(
   regardless of any matches below)” _unchecked_ and “User must fill out name and
   email” checked. Then under comment moderation I have a short list of words that
   I don’t want to see on my site like “phentermine” and the screen name and email
   addresses of a guy who keeps harrassing me through my site. None of these things
   are in common with my screen name or email.
 * Thanks for your help. I’ll try posting without anything in the moderation queue
   and see what happens. (Is that really how you spell “queue?”)
 *  Thread Starter [thepete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepete/)
 * (@thepete)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-show-up-does-in-admin/#post-140890)
 * Yep, that was it–damn. I’ll have to come up with a better list.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-doesnt-show-up-does-in-admin/#post-140890)
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