Comment Moderation Problem

  • Resolved ditchwalk

    (@wporg-1)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    I have a small up-to-date WP blog.

    I have comments set to allow anyone to comment, provided they fill out name and email. (I don’t verify either.)

    Everybody else seems to be able to comment as expected, but when I reply to a comment MY OWN COMMENTS are held for moderation.

    I cannot find any setting that would cause this, and I cannot see anything I’m doing that would cause this.

    Has anyone dealt with this? Fix? Workaround? Explanation?

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Have you tried:
    – deactivating ALL (yes all) plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem (plugin functions can interfere). If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s).
    – switching to the unedited default Twenty Fifteen theme for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

    Thread Starter ditchwalk

    (@wporg-1)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Tara,

    No, I haven’t tried that but it’s a good idea. I have a few plugins that are pretty popular, but they also have their hooks in everything. I’ll check it out. (Thanks for the reply.)

    Thread Starter ditchwalk

    (@wporg-1)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Well, that was quick…. LOL

    As you suspected, this is a plugin-related problem.

    The plugin in question is Wordfence, which includes this option:

    Hold anonymous comments using member emails for moderation

    In WordPress it’s possible for someone who is not a member on your website to post a comment and to specify an email address of a real member on your site. This behavior is suspicious and may be incorporated into a more sophisticated attack. So we suggest that you leave this option enabled which will hold those comments for moderation before they’re published.

    http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options

    I have been using a ‘member’ email to reply to comments, but with a different name, so the plugin is actually working as intended. Not a bad feature, actually, but until you suggested that I dig into my plugins I had no clue it was even there.

    Thread Starter ditchwalk

    (@wporg-1)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Oops…forgot to mark this as resolved.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    you are welcome 🙂

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