Title: Comment Moderation
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comment Moderation

 *  Resolved Anonymous
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/)
 * I’m looking to set up another blog, and I’m seriously considering Word Press –
   but I would like to be able to moderate comments (i.e. comments and trackbacks
   don’t appear on the site until I give them the OK). Is this available for Word
   Press? Either built in or as a hack?

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 *  [Dougal Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougal/)
 * (@dougal)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/#post-24780)
 * Not yet, but we’ve already been discussing that feature. We hope to get into 
   the next release, along with some comment-spam detection and management features.
 *  [otaku42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otaku42/)
 * (@otaku42)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/#post-24781)
 * Hmm, seems that I’ve been too fast again. I’ve written a patch for 0.72 gold 
   today, that I’ll release later this evening. So maybe this could be regarded 
   as a proposal implementation (that I made without knowing what the developers
   have discussed so far). If it won’t make to the CVS it was at least a nice job
   to do, in order to learn more about the WordPress internals 🙂
    My patch adds
   a new option to the configuration options for switching comment moderation on
   and off. It also adds a new field to $tablecomments that indicates if a comment
   has been approved. The approval panel is more or less dumb, it just lists all
   not-yet-approved comments and allows to skip, approve or delete each entry. So
   there is no real magic behind it. Optimization could be done for notification
   of the admin or a group of moderators, and one thing I forgot so far (will be
   implemented before the release) is that the user notification must be done as
   soon as a comment is approved. Bye, Mike
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/#post-24785)
 * otaku42: Excellent. You’ve just caused me to start getting ready to put WordPress
   on my site!
 *  [otaku42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otaku42/)
 * (@otaku42)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/#post-24798)
 * So I hope you won’t be disappointed about my hack 🙂
    I’ll release it this evening.
   Yesterday I didn’t find the time anymore, and during this day I have to go and
   get my new car… but when I return home, I’ll let you know where you can get the
   hack. Do you have knowledge of using patch & co under Unix-based systems, or 
   should I provide an archive containing all the changed files? Or both? Bye, Mike
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/#post-24817)
 * I know patch (I’ve been running Linux for 4 years, and now have managed to land
   a job with is all Linux/UNIX – its made me happy 😀 ), but I’m sure there are
   people who would benefit from your hack who don’t. So I suggest you put out both.
 *  [otaku42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otaku42/)
 * (@otaku42)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/#post-24850)
 * Just to let you know about the current state: I was short of time, so the hack
   was delayed a bit. I just sent it over to Matt, as he wanted to review it. It
   may happen that my patch will find its way to the CVS… maybe, maybe not (so don’t
   hold your breath).
    I’ll keep you uptodate. Bye, Mike
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/#post-24857)
 * I’m going to look at it this afternoon.

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
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 * Last reply from: [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * Last activity: [23 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-moderation/#post-24857)
 * Status: resolved

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