Forced comment moderation

  • Resolved obman

    (@obman)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    I work at a university where we are providing blogging & micro sites via WordPress multi-sites. Our accounts are auto provisioned and those who sign up for a blog/site are assigned as the default site admin/owner.

    Is there any way to force site owners to moderate their comments? We need to remove the ability for site owners to modify the discussion setting An administrator must always approve the comment. The university is a concerned that comments could show up without being monitored.

    I was directed to check out the following, which looks great if it could be unchangeable on the site admin level, but rather the network admin level.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

    Hope that makes sense,

    Thanks!

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  • Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hi! 🙂

    (sometimes I feel like I just pop up behind a different counter wearing a different hat)

    I can’t remember if there’s a hook on that page or not, but a quickie plugin tossed in the mu-plugins folder could block access.

    and I just remembered this:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/menus/

    you can shut off the menu for that whole screen.

    Thread Starter obman

    (@obman)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    LOL! Nice to see you again Andrea. The second link looks exactly what I’m after but I have sorta-of-a newbie question. On my multi site install (I didn’t install MU but WordPress 3.12 then enabled multi site) I don’t seem to have a “mu-plugins” directory under wp-content. Should I? I created on and tried to enable as the instructions talk about but I wasn’t able to.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks again!

    Mike

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 11 months ago

    You don’t have to enable plugins in the mu-plugins folder. They auto-load.

    1. Upload ds_wp3_menus.php to the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory
    2. Set multisite “Menu Settings” option at SuperAdmin->Options page

    So do you not have the network -> Options page?

    Thread Starter obman

    (@obman)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    On my Network Admin page I have the following options on the left navigation:

    Dashboard | Sites | Users | Themes | Plugins | Settings | Updates

    So I should see an Options link on the Network Admin page?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Do settings. I keep forgetting we changed everything!

    Thread Starter obman

    (@obman)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Bingo. Thanks so much Ipstenu!

    Thread Starter obman

    (@obman)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks Andrea for leading me to this great fix developed by David Sader. Works perfectly!

    Best Regards,

    Mike

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