Scott Reilly

Hi @airathalitov, thanks for the suggestion! I have released v3.7 of the Restrict Usernames plugin, which includes the implementation of the suggested improvement.

Cheers!

@ixnyne: v5.2 of the Auto-hyperlink URLs plugin has just been released.

Cheers!

@apponboard: What plugin are you using to get your the “Upcoming Events” widget? Auto-hyperlink URLs is generally compatible with widgets, but it really depends on what the other plugin is doing to generate its widget content.

@jeriksson: Hi, it’s been awhile since your request but I thought I’d let you (and anyone else who happens upon this thread) know that the just-released v2.2 of Never Moderate Registered Users facilitates your request.

The following code (if put into your active theme’s functions.php file, or ideally in a site-specific plugin) will allow the plugin to permit registered users to comment without being moderated unless they post a full URL.


/**
* Always moderate comments by registered users if they mention "Google".
*
* @param bool $approved Approval status. Accepts 1, 0, 'spam', WP_Error.
* @param array $commentdata Comment data.
* @param WP_User $user The commenting user.
* @return bool
*/
function c2c_moderate_registered_user_comments_with_url( $approved, $commentdata, $user ) {
if ( $approved && ( false !== stripos( $commentdata['comment_content'], 'http://' ) || false !== stripos( $commentdata['comment_content'], 'https://' ) ) ) {
$approved = 0;
}
return $approved;
}
add_filter( 'c2c_moderate_registered_user_comments_with_url', 10, 3 );


@zulumaster: Yes, the plugin is GDPR-compliant. The answer to all your questions in the original post is “no”.

Cheers!

@kent-brockman: Thanks for the review! I released v1.7 of the plugin recently.

Ashod,

The email option provided by the plugin is completely separate from the email options provided by WordPress itself.

The email settings on the Settings > Discussions admin page, consisting of the two checkbox options in the “Email me whenever” section (“Anyone posts a comment” and “A comment is held for moderation”) are provided by WordPress and are unrelated to anything handled by the plugin. Those options are provided even if the plugin is not installed, and are not affected by the plugin when it is installed.

The plugin only provides the option “Email me whenever a comment is submitted to the site.” in a user’s profile (in the section “New Comment Emails”).

If you want the test user to receive email notifications for new comments, the user must visit their own profile (or you as the administrator need to edit their profile) to check the “Email me whenever a comment is submitted to the site.” setting.

The Settings > Discussions admin page only relate to the designated admin email address getting email notifications. (Which, again, is separate from anything this plugin handles.)

Does that help clarify things?

Hi @dylanfitzger,

Thanks for the report! However, I believe the issue being reported is actually a shortcoming of the script or tool doing the validation.

The plugin file does not use the /e modifier, only /i, /u, /S.

More than likely the code scanner is looking at this line of code (line 302 of the current v1.8 release):

$text = preg_replace( "~{$regex}~{$preg_flags}", $new_text, $text, $limit );

The code scanner is likely seeing the “e” in the variable $preg_flags (which appears in the position a modifier is expected for preg_replace()). But that’s simply a character in a variable.

What code scanner are you using?

I have not encountered compatibility warnings or errors while running the plugin under PHP7. (There are some warning that will be fixed in the newest version, but aren’t due to PHP7.)