Title: Whitelisting comment authors
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Whitelisting comment authors

 *  [salubritas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salubritas/)
 * (@salubritas)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whitelisting-comment-authors/)
 * Hi, this might sound quite simple but I haven’t been able to find a combination
   of settings or a plugin to achieve it.
 * I’m 95% happy with the way my blog identifies spam, sends comments for approval
   etc. Akismet catches most of the spam, then the standard option to send comments
   for approval that have 1+ links gets the rest (albeit with a filter on comment_max_links_url
   to treat the author URL as a link for this purpose).
 * But I still have to approve comments with links that are from previously approved
   comment authors. I’d like these to be approved automatically. The standard option“
   Comment author must have a previously approved comment” works the wrong way for
   this, meaning I would also have to moderate comments without links that are now
   automatically approved (I’ve never had spam comments with zero links so I’m happy
   to let those through).
 * I hope this is making sense! I’ve tried Antispam Bee as it has the option to 
   whitelist previously approved authors, but comments were still being sent for
   moderation – I assume because they contained links. I suppose generally the problem
   is that the spam detection rules are additive and I want the presence of a previously
   approved comment to override the spam detection instead.
 * Plugins: Advanced Excerpt, Akismet, Jetpack, Revision Control, Subscribe to Comments
   Reloaded, W3 Total Cache, Widgets Reloaded, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin,
   Yoast SEO

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