Title: Disabling comment moderation Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Disabling comment moderation * [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * (@kceyleb) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/) * Hi, * I have searched everywhere without any solution; I need to allow people comment on posts WITHOUT moderation. * Please help Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405460) * Hi, * You can do that under Settings > Discussion. Uncheck the box that says “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”. * Thread Starter [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * (@kceyleb) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405468) * I have done that, but it’s still now working. Isn’t there some wordpress person here who can help? * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405471) * I’m not sure what you mean by “WordPress person”. In you mean someone who makes a living with WordPress and/or contributes to the project in a number of ways, I would certainly qualify for that. * If your site isn’t working with the option that way, there must be another option checked that’s causing it, or a plugin or some theme code doing it. Give me more details and I’ll be happy to help. * Thread Starter [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * (@kceyleb) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405472) * I didn’t mean it that way. Sorry tho * Back to the issue, when someone posts a comment, it says awaiting moderation, I have unchecked everything “un checkable” but still same thing. * Address is ijeomasdiary.com * Thank you * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405473) * Can you show me a screenshot of: * – all your settings under Settings > Discussion? * – all your active plugins under Plugins > Installed Plugins > Active? * Thread Starter [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * (@kceyleb) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405474) * I’m replying via mobile and can’t seem to find an option to attach image. Can I do that in about 12 hours? I should be on PC then. * Thank you * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405476) * Sure no problem. * Thread Starter [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * (@kceyleb) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405522) * I’m including links to screenshots cos i cant see any option to attach them here. * Comment settings [http://www.ijeomasdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/comment-settings1.jpg](http://www.ijeomasdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/comment-settings1.jpg) * Plugins 1 [http://www.ijeomasdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/plugins12.jpg](http://www.ijeomasdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/plugins12.jpg) * Plugins 2 [http://www.ijeomasdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/plugins22.jpg](http://www.ijeomasdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/plugins22.jpg) * Plugins 3 [http://www.ijeomasdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/plugins32.jpg](http://www.ijeomasdiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/plugins32.jpg) * Yoast seo is the only one not captured in the screen shots * Thank you * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405527) * Does it still do that if you deactivate the X – Facebook Comments plugin? * Thread Starter [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * (@kceyleb) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405533) * i have deactivated x-facebook plugin and it still shows awaiting moderation. * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405536) * On new comments or ones that already existed? It would only affect new ones if that’s the case. * If it’s still not working on new comments, does it work if you temporarily deactivate all plugins? * Thread Starter [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * (@kceyleb) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405537) * I have deactivated all plugins, restored essential ones and its now working. I guess I have to figure out which plugin is responsible. Thank you very much! * PS: I hope the owner won’t regret asking to take off moderation from the blog * [John Parris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mindctrl/) * (@mindctrl) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405539) * Great! Glad to hear it’s working. If you would, please let us know which plugin was causing it. * Thread Starter [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * (@kceyleb) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405559) * The culprit as it turns out, was AKISMET. I activated it and comments stopped working again. I have realised everything now works after generating an API and linking the blog to an Akismet account. * I hope it keeps working. . . * Thanks for your help. Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) The topic ‘Disabling comment moderation’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment/) * [moderation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/moderation/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 14 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [kceyleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kceyleb/) * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-comment-moderation/#post-6405559) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics